Alon Tal

Alon Tal was born in 1961 in United States

Alon Tal was born in the United States as Albert Rosenthal and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was active in the Young Judaea youth movement. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and moved to Israel.

After his army service he studied law at the Hebrew University. He worked as a legal intern in the Environmental Protection Service and clerked in the Attorney General's office. In 1986 he went to Harvard to study environmental science and public policy and earned a doctorate.

In 1990 he founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, and in 1996 he founded the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at Kibbutz Ketura. He chaired Life and Environment, the umbrella group of Israel's environmental organizations, and served on the board of the Jewish National Fund. He also co-founded groups such as EcoPeace and Zafuf.

In 2017 he became head of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. He was a founder of the Green Movement and ran for the Knesset several times. In 2021 he entered the Knesset on the Blue and White list.

In 2026 he co-founded the Center for Population Science at Tel Aviv University.