“There was a joke about Mr. Arafat not being married,” Mr. Avnery later told The Washington Post. They soon slipped into poverty, and Mr. Avnery left school at 14 to work as a clerk in a law office. It brought Mr. Avnery his first dose of public scorn, which continued in earnest after he acquired Haolam Hazeh in 1950. A defamation law that Mr. Avnery said was targeting the magazine led him into electoral politics. With his wife, the former Rachel Gruenbaum, Mr. Avnery founded the activist group Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc).

Source: Washington Post August 21, 2018 00:45 UTC