FILE PHOTO: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat shakes hands with the head of Israeli peace delegation Uri Avneri in the West Bank City of Ramallah, January 22, 2002. REUTERS/Osama Silwadi/File Photo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Uri Avnery, a left-wing peace activist who in 1982 became the first prominent Israeli to meet in public with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died on Monday in a Tel Aviv hospital. He was 94.
The encounter took place during Israel's invasion of Lebanon and war with Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), then designated a terrorist group by Israel. Avnery crossed into west Beirut from the Israeli-held east.
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