Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer.

* founding member, Gush Shalom (peace bloc), independent peace movement (1993)
* former publisher and editor-in-chief, Haolam Hazeh news magazine (1950-1990)
* former member of the Knesset (three terms: 1965-1969, 1969-1973, 1979-1981)
* founding member, Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (1975)
* columnist, Internet.
* joined the Zionist paramilitary group, the Irgun, at age 15, and left at age 19