Leader of Israel's Left, Uri Avnery, passes away age 94
The prominent journalist, left-wing peace activist and former MK Uri Avnery passed away at age 94 overnight Sunday after suffering a stroke ten days ago.
He was hospitalized immediately after in Ichilov Hospital at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center where he passed away.
Avnery was the editor in chief for 40 years of the weekly magazine HaOlam HaZeh which ceased publication in 1993.
He served as an MK in the sixth and seventh Knesset for the “HaOlam HaZeh-Koah Hadash” movement, a small radical left-wing political party known as Meri. He also served in the ninth Knesset for the political party known as the Left Camp of Israel.
