Ezra Nawi

Ezra Yitzhak Nawi (Hebrew: עזרא יצחק נאווי; 1952 – 9 January 2021) was an Israeli Mizrahi Jew, left-wing,[1] human rights activist and pacifist. He was supportive of the Bedouin herders and farmers of the South Hebron Hills. He was a supporter of Uri Avnery. He was called "a working-class, liberal gay version of Joe the Plumber".[2][lower-alpha 1]

Nawi died on 9 January 2021 from cancer, aged 69.[3]

Notes
  1. Levinson 2009a: "Ezra Nawi described himself as 'a human rights activist, gay, a Mizrahi Jew who also manages to screw the state. They just don't know how to deal with me'."

References
  1. Hasson 2005a.
  2. Luongo 2011, p. 1.
  3. Radical leftist activist Ezra Nawi dies at 69
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