Published: 28 July 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ONE OF ISRAEL’S MOST prominent environmental figures is challenging political and religious groups at the upcoming Zionist Congress to take seriously the KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund’s claim that it is Israel’s “top green organization,” by choosing him as its next chairman.
In his agenda for change, Prof. Alon Tal, chair of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Public Policy, says the organisation has “lacked the leadership and vision to truly transform Israel into the international leader in sustainability that it could be.”
All major environmental organizations have signed letters to Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid asking them to publicly support Tal’s candidacy.
After co-founding the Green Movement, which ran in two Israeli elections, Tal joined Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience party in 2019, taking 25th place on the Knesset list but dropping to the unrealistic 45th spot after Israel Resilience merged with Yesh Atid to form Blue and White (from which Yesh Atid has since split).
FULL STORY Prominent environmental activist, academic hopes to be elected KKL-JNF chair (Times of Israel)
Photo: Professor Alon Tal (left) with Blue and White lawmaker Miiki Haimovich at the Tel Aviv port on election night, September 17, 2019 (Courtesy Alon Tal)
