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,[4] 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.