Alon Tal
Alon Tal | |
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| אלון טל | |
Alon Tal in 2021 | |
| Member of the Knesset | |
| 2021–2022 | Blue and White |
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| Born | Albert Rosenthal 12 July 1960 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Member of Knesset, Professor |
| Spouse | Robyn Klein Tal |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Sc.D. Environmental Health Policy |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Agriculture and Water Quality: An Evaluation of State Environmental Programs (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | John D. Graham |
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| Website | www |
Alon Tal (Hebrew: אלון טל; born 12 July 1960) is an Israeli politician, academic and environmentalist. He was a member of the 24th Knesset between 2021 and 2022, representing the Blue and White political party; founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies; and co-founder of Ecopeace: Friends of the Earth–Middle East, This Is My Earth, the Israel Forum for Demography, Environment and Society, Aytzim: Ecological Judaism, and the Green Movement. Tal was appointed chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University in 2017.