Our guest is legendary US-born Israeli environmentalist, academic and politician, Prof. Alon Tal. Since moving to Israel in 1980, Alon Talk has established himself as a legal authority, public policy expert and visionary in the field of the environment. He is currently the Chair of the Public Policy School at Tel Aviv University. Among his many achievements, he founded (and co-founded) a long list of institutions and entities that are devoted to the promotion of environmental awareness, such as, Adam Teva V’din, the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (1990); Israel Union for Environmental Defense; Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (1996); Green Zionist Alliance: The Grassroots Campaign for a Sustainable Israel (2001); Ecopeace: Friends of the Earth–Middle East; This Is My Earth ” TIME” initiative – an international effort to purchase biodiversity “hot spots” as conservation sanctuaries through crowd sourcing; Israel Forum for Demography; Environment and Society; Aytzim: Ecological Judaism; The Green Movement. He is the winner of the Bronfman Award 2006 and with the money received he also founded the Tal Fund. In addition he has served on the international board of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and in recent years promoted a joint Israel-Palestinian plan to tackle environmental issues. We discussed demography, geography and politics. 

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