Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with
Gush Shalom, the radical Israeli peace movement. He is also one of its founding member, and a recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize. He is a former member of the Knesset and was a member of the rightwing Irgun underground in the 1940s. He also was for forty years the editor-in-chief of
Haolam Hazeh.