Note: The following article was written during the lifetime of the award winner. Uri Avnery died on August 29, 2018 in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uri Avnery was born on September 10, 1923 to a Jewish family in Beckum, Germany. When he was ten, his family moved to Israel to escape Nazi rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avnery founded Gush Shalom in 1993, when he felt that other peace groups were\nunable to stand against the new government under Yitzhak Rabin. In English \u0093Gush Shalom\u0094 translates as \u0093The Peace Bloc,\u0094 and they have been working towards Israeli- Palestinian peace. They have no political affiliations as a group and their main objective is to change Israeli public opinion, so that they accept the right to exist of a Palestinian nation. Gush Shalom advocates re-instating the \u0093Green line\u0094 that was used before 1967, with Jerusalem as the capital of both countries. Gush Shalom organized many protests for human rights issue in Israel, as well as promoted their ideas for peace through educational campaigns. Uri Avnery became a well-known author for his book; \u0093In the Fields of the Philistines\u0094 which details his experience in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He went on to purchase \u0093Haolam Hazeh,\u0094 an Israeli magazine, and remained the Editor-in-Chief for forty years. He turned it into a means of reporting on corruption and the government threatened to shut down his magazine several times. As a result, the magazine\u0092s supporters formed a political party and they won a seat in the Israeli Knesset in 1965. Avnery personally served as a member for ten years.\n\nHe currently has a weekly online column, which is published by Gush Shalom, in which he discusses an important political issue. He was also awarded the alternative Nobel peace prize in 2001and the Erich Maria Remarque Peace prize in 1995. Note: The following article was written during the lifetime of the award winner. Uri Avnery died on August 29, 2018 in Tel Aviv. Uri Avnery was born on September 1, 1923 and came from a Jewish family in Beckum, Germany. In 1933, his family left Germany and moved to Israel. Avnery founded "Gush Shalom" in 1993, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-353","preistraeger","type-preistraeger","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/preistraeger"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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