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Ranan R. Lurie (born May 26, 1932) is an American Israeli political cartoonist and journalist, a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) since 1990,〔(Ranan R. Lurie ), CSIS〕 a member of the United Nation Correspondents Association, founder and Editor-in-Chief of ''Cartoonews'', a current events educational magazine.〔(Cartoonews )〕 ==Biography== Ranan Lurie was born on May 26, 1932 to Joseph and Shoshanna, who traveled from Tel Aviv to Port Said, Egypt, at the invitation of the grandfather (Rabbi Isaiah Lurie) to give birth of their first born at his home. (This event gave him an an advantage when he met with President Sadat (1977 and 1979) as well as with President Mubarak (1984 and 1997) for interviews and portrait-sittings). Two weeks after his birth Ranan and his parents returned to Tel Aviv. His father was sixth-generation Jerusalem-born and his mother seventh-generation. Ranan Lurie's father, Joseph, born in 1906, was one of the first Jerusalem babies born outside the walls of the old city, in the new neighborhood of "Yemin Moshe". The grandfather Isaiah, petrified by the thought that he would be recruited into the Turkish army during the First World War, to be sent to Gallipoli, utilized his French citizenship and fled to Egypt where he became the president of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. In 1947, Lurie was appointed member of Israel's National Youth Handball team. Lurie was a member of the Israeli underground armed organization ("''Irgun''") and was wounded in a battle against the British. He later served in the IDF reserves as a Major and senior company commander. He became a member of a small covert sky-diving unit of officers-only trained to operate behind enemy lines. He shared parachute training with the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the 16th independent Parachute Regiment of the British Forces in Aldershot, UK, and with the French Foreign Legion's Paratroop Forces in Pau, France. In July 1954, when Israel and Egypt were still in an official stage of war, Lurie infiltrated the flagship of an Egyptian navy flotilla anchoring in Venice, supposedly as an Australian journalist, "interviewed" the frigate's high ranking enemy officers and took photographs of their newly installed Soviet Radar. Lurie won the highest Israeli journalistic award granted "For Unprecedented bravery". At the beginning of the Suez War the British light cruiser "HMS New Castle", that by then was familiar with the Egyptian-Soviet radar, sunk the Egyptian "Domiat" within minutes. It however saved 69 Egyptian crew members and return them to shore. During the first of his three stages of the Six-Day War Major Lurie and his unit received responsibility for the "Bottleneck" of Israel - the narrowest distance between the sea and Palestinian Tul Karem. The second stage was capturing Tul Karem from the north with his force of five hundred men, supported by a squadron of tanks and cannon-mounted jeeps. In the last stage of combat, as the battle developed, he was sent deep behind enemy lines commanding a tiny unit of nine on two of his cannon-mounted jeeps. His escapades then were reported by the international media and lectured at West Point. At the end of the combat, he gained a different kind of world attention when he refused to deport the Palestinian inhabitants of the town of Anabta to Jordan, risking a court martial that would have involved Prime Minister Levi Eshkol Lurie's friend, who after Ranan's meeting with him face-to-face instructed Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan "To return immediately all the exiled Palestinian inhabitants and rebuild any of their destroyed homes". Defense Minister Dayan obeyed.〔Dafna Linzer, (Arab Expulsion Ended by Cartoonist ), Associated Press, June 5, 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ranan Lurie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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