Dr Uri Davis was born in Jerusalem in 1943. He has been at the forefront of the defence of human rights, notably Palestinian rights, since 1965 and has pioneered critical research on Zionism and Israel since the mid-1970.
He has published extensively in these fields, including:
Israel: An Apartheid State (Zed Books, London 1987 & 1990; abridged edition, MRN, Laudium, 2001);
Citizenship and the State: Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon (Ithaca Press, Reading, 1997);
Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications (co-ed) (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and most recently
Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within, Zed Books, London, 2003..
Dr Davis is an Observer-Member of the Palestine National Council (PNC); member of the Middle East Regional Committee of the international journal Citizenship Studies; Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS), University of Durham and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter; Chairperson of AL-BEIT: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Israel and MAIAP: Movement Against Israeli Apartheid in Palestine; founding member and Senior Director for Legal and Political Affairs, Mosaic Communities: Multinational Housing Cooperative in Israel.
Uri Davis and Family, Rubery, Premier Lodge Hotel, Birmingham Great Park, UK, 13 January 2003.
Clockwise from Centre:
Uri Davis, Elisabeth Penny Edith (Eppie) Garton, daughter of Tosje Maks and Mike Garton, half step-daughter; Michael (Mike) Garton, second husband of Tosje Maks (Deceased 2004); Antonia Elisabeth Louise (Tosje) Maks, former second wife of Uri Davis and mother of Mikele Davis and Eppie Garton; Sirkku Anneli Pajunen, better half of Uri Davis and mother of Daniel and Iris Pajunen; Gul (Gully) Davis, elder son of Uri Davis & infant sister Iris Blanka Siiri Pajunen, daughter of Uri Davis; Michael Joseph Maks (Mikele) Davis, second son of Uri Davis & infant brother Daniel Joseph Paavo Pajunen, third son of Uri Davis; Nira Yuval Davis, former first wife of Uri Davis and mother of Gully Davis; Alain Hertzmann, second husband of Nira Yuval Davis.
Absent from photograph
Hemdah (Charmian) Qolton (nee Davis) and her husband Haim (deceased 1998); Ora Peninah (Fannie) Davis and her husband Eli Maneh; Maria de la Luz (Luz) Gutierrez, better half of Mikele Davis;
Uri Davis met Nira Yuval (Yablonski) in Jerusalem 1965. Uri and Nira married in 1965; formally separated in 1975 and divorced in 1977. Their son Gul Davis was born in Boston, USA (date of birth temporarily excised).
Uri Davis met Tosje Maks in Zeist, Holland in 1976. Uri married Tosje in 1977; formally separated in 1985; and divorced in 1989. Their son Michael was born in Bradford, UK in 1980.
Uri Davis met Sirkku Pajunen in Oslo in 1985. They dedicated their relationship in 1990; and separated in 2006. Their twin children Daniel and Iris were born in Helsinki, Finland, in 2002.
Uri Davis met Miyassar Abu Ali in Ramallah in 2006. They signed their Certificate of Marriage ('Aqd al-Zawaj) there in 2008.
Uri, Mustafa Abu Ali (Miyassar's brother), Miyassar, Udi Adiv, Abu Ali Shahin ((Member of the FATH Revolutionary Council, and the second of the two witnesses at the formal signing of the Book of Marriage of Miyassar and Uri), and Jenin Albina
 Hemdah and Haim (deceased) Qolton Tiv'on, Israel, 1997. |
 Ora Davis and Eli Manneh, Herzliyyah, Israel, 2005 |
 Luz Gutierrez and Michael Davis, San Salvador, El Salvador 2005 |
 Julia Davis Gutierrez (center (b. 12.8.2011) daughter of Michael Davis and Luz Gutierrez and grand-daughter of Uri Davis & Tosje Maks |