Jacobo Timerman, Exposed Argentina's 'Dirty War,' 76

Jacobo Timerman, Exposed Argentina's `Dirty War,' 76

Jacobo Timerman, a former Argentine political prisoner and lifelong Zionist, died here Nov. 11. The cause was a heart attack. He was 76.

Timerman, an outspoken and controversial journalist, was best known for his 1981 book on his time in prison, "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number," which he wrote from exile in Israel. In it, he detailed his 30 months under house arrest in Argentina during the late 1970s, when Argentina's military junta killed thousands of people.

After he was released, he went to Israel, where he did not shy away from criticizing the Jewish state, particularly Israel's role in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which he chronicled in his book "The Longest War." But he was also not shy of attacking Palestinian terrorism.

His criticism of both sides of the Middle East conflict resulted from his philosophy, which he described as "a world that at times took the form of Zionism, at times the struggle for human...