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February 2, 2011
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Dr. Alon Tal has degrees in political science from the University of North Carolina and law from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his doctoral studies at Harvard University, where he served as an adjunct faculty member from 1989-1998. He also has taught environmental law at Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1990 Alon founded Adam Teva v’Din – the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, a public-interest advocacy group which is now Israel’s second largest environmental organization. In 1996 he founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, where he served as director, and more recently as director of research. Alon has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as an assistant to the attorney general of Israel. A founding board member of Friends of the Earth, Middle East, Alon served as chairman of Life and Environment, Israel’s umbrella group for environmental organizations, from 1999-2004, and he is presently one of the GZA representatives on the board of directors of Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael. In 2005 Alon was awarded the Charles Bronfman Prize and in 1997 he won the Henry Ford European Conservation Award. Considered by many to be the leading environmentalist in Israel today, Alon is a co-founder of the Green Zionist Alliance.
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