Jewish National Fund
present
Award-Winning Israeli
Environmentalist
Professor Alon Tal
A South Shore Long
Island Community Event
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Professor Alon Tal’s “
Pollution in a Promised Land:
an
Environmental History of
Israel” is the definitive work on
the
subject of the environment in Israel.
(scroll
further down to read about Mr Tal)
But even more than
chronicling Israel's environmental journey,
the book is a history of Zionism – the dream of the
Jewish
people's return to its ancient
homeland – told from an unusual
but critically important standpoint.
Prof. Tal of
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, received a Lifetime
Achievement
Award for Environmental
Protection from Israel's Ministry of Environmental
Protection. The award, recognized the honorees for their work on behalf
of
safeguarding Israel's environment and was
granted as part of the country's 60th
anniversary celebrations.
About : Alon Tal
Dr. Alon Tal's career has
been a balance between academia and public interest advocacy. He
is presently
an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at Ben Gurion University. Alon
has held faculty appointments at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities in
Israel,and was a visiting
professor at the University of Otago in New
Zealand. Between 1990 and 1998 he was an
adjunct faculty member at Harvard
University.
Dr. Tal was the founding
director of Adam Teva V'din,the Israel Union for Environmental Defense
from 1990-1997,a leading public interest law group and was chairman of Life and
Environment,
an umbrella group for eighty environmental organizations in
Israel from 1998-2003.
In 1996, Dr. Tal founded the Arava Institute for
Environmental Studies, a graduate studies
center in which Israeli, Jordanian
and Palestinian students join environmentalists from
around the world in an
advanced interdisciplinary research program.
He currently is chairman of
the committee for sustainable development on the international
board of the
Jewish National Fund (KKL) and represents Israel's Foreign Ministry at the United
Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
In 2006 he was awarded
the Charles Bronfman humanitarian prize for environmental
leadership. The
100,000 prize money has been largely directed to establish The Tal Fund - a
new grassroots ecological initiative in Israel in conjunction with the
Jewish National Fund.
Dr. Tal has published dozens of academic and
popular articles. His most recent books are
Speaking of Earth –
Environmental Speeches that Moved the World (Rutgers University Press)
and,
Pollution in a Promised Land, an Environmental History of Israel, published by
the
University of California Press. Dr. Tal has received degrees in political
science and economics
from the University of North Carolina, Law from Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. He
completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees from
the Harvard School of Public Health in
Environmental Health
Policy.
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