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URI AVNERY is a member of the Knesset-the Israeli parliament-and is the controversial editor-in-chief of Ha'olam Hazeh {This World), Israel's leading weekly news magazine. He has been deeply involved in the political life of Palestine and Israel for the past thirty years, first as a teen-age member of the terrorist Irgun group, then as a soldier in the 1948 War of Liberation. Now, as one of Israel's top journalists and editors, and as a dissident voice in parliament, he has become the foremost advocate of Arab-Israeli understanding, cooperation, and union.
Mr. Avnery has written several books, among them In the Fields of the Philistines and The Other Side of the Coin, both of which were widely acclaimed in Israel. His numerous magazine articles include "The Great Fratricidal War" for Jean-Paul Sartre's special June 1967 issue of Temps Modernes and "Zionism or Semitism," also by special request of Sartre for Temps Modernes.
Mr. Avnery lives in Tel Aviv.
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