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Alon Tal

Professor Alon Tal is chairman of Israel's Green Movement

May 12, 2013
11:54 am

Sins of emission in the 2013 Budget

In an almost annual ritual, Israel's Finance Ministry lays on the Knesset docket an "Arrangements Bill" – the rider that accompanies Israel's proposed budgetary law. And invariably......

January 13, 2013
1:05 pm

Tzipi Livni’s gambit and the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’

A week ago on national TV, Tzipi Livni called on Labor Party head, Shelly Yachimovich and Yesh Atid Chair Yair Lapid to meet to discuss creating a......

January 9, 2013
5:29 am

Israel’s environmental crisis 2013 – political antecedents and solutions

Welcome to Israel 2013: According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, in Israel 2013, 800 people die each year due to air pollution. In Israel 2013, half a million......

January 2, 2013
6:21 pm

Jewish Home party is no home for the non-Orthodox

The sharp rise in the polls of Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party is one of the surprising developments in the present election campaign. How is it that this religious......

December 28, 2012
7:57 pm

I’ll tell you who Tzipi Livni is: a compelling alternative to Bibi Netanyahu

A recent blog post rhetorically asks: “Tzipi Livni – who are you?” The writer then proceeds to systematically misrepresent Livni’s two decades of public service and positions on any......

December 24, 2012
11:18 am

Four steps for rescuing Judaism and justice in Israel

Now – before the ballots are counted – is the time to talk about some basic commitments to which all of the non-sectoral, Zionist parties should agree to make......

December 8, 2012
3:38 pm

Natural bedfellows: Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua and the Green Movement

There were those who raised an eyebrow on Thursday night when the Green Movement party joined Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party with green candidates integrated into her Knesset list. The......

November 22, 2012
4:41 pm

Casualty of war: a genuine debate on who we want to be

When the IDF took out Ahmed Jabari – it also may have slain any meaningful discourse in the upcoming Knesset elections. As expected, Israel became all-absorbed in yet another......