Alon Tal

Alon Tal

Alon Tal (Hebrew: אלון טל‎‎, born 12 July 1960) is a leading Israeli environmental activist and academic, founder of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and a co-founder of Ecopeace Middle East,This is My Earth,the Israel Forum for Demography, Environment and Society Aytzim: Ecological Judaism, and the Green Movement political party. Tal was appointed chair of the department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University in 2017.

Tal was born on July 12, 1960, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, as Albert Rosenthal. He was active in the Young Judaea youth movement, served on its national executive board, and participated in its Israel program in 1977. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1980, he moved to Israel and enlisted in the Israeli army. He changed his name to Alon Tal after making aliyah to Israel and becoming an Israeli citizen. He served in the Nahal paratrooper division and saw action in the 1982 First Lebanon War. After his discharge, Tal attended Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. During his time in law school, he worked as a legal intern in Israel’s Environmental Protection Service (part of the Ministry of Interior) and subsequently clerked in the office of Israel’s Attorney General, Yitzhak Zamir. In 1986, Tal returned to the U.S. and enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health, where he studied Environmental Science and Public Policy. His doctoral dissertation, which was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, analyzed state strategies to control agricultural nonpoint source pollution.

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