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,[2] and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies;[3] and a co-founder of Ecopeace: Friends of the Earth, Middle East;[4] This is My Earth;[5] the Israel Forum for Demography, Environment and Society; Aytzim: Ecological Judaism;[6] and the Green Movement political party.[7] Tal was appointed chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University in 2017.