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Jan 1, 2025, 1:53 PM
2024: A Bad Year for the Environment
2024 was a bad year for the planet. The international community, once united in its commitment to protect the environment, seems to have lost its way. High hopes for a landmark international agreement to reduce plastic pollution were dashed...
Dec 17, 2024, 3:35 PM
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The truth about life with a deceitful leader
Netanyahu's loose relationship with the truth leaves the public wondering whether to believe anything he says
Nov 24, 2024, 2:59 PM
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The absurd ICC indictments could have been avoided
Netanyahu has always known that only an independent state commission into the October 7 attack and Gaza war would stave this off
Oct 24, 2024, 11:21 PM
The Critical Message Behind Ben Gurion University Professors’ Prestigious Publication
A complex model assessing potential environmental policy options empirically demonstrates the futility of addressing ecological challenges without stabilizing population Promotion at Israeli universities is almost entirely based on the quantity of our publications. Israeli academics working in the environmental field...
Jul 3, 2024, 2:20 PM
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Antisemitism is in the air at Stanford University
A visiting professor on campus, I thought reports of Jew-hatred and anti-Israeli bias were overblown. A new report demonstrates how wrong I was
Jan 23, 2024, 12:30 PM
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70 years of planting trees for the next generation
How do you explain that Jewish nationalism is not the 'settler colonialist paradigm' that today's progressives claim it is? Start with the trees
Dec 17, 2023, 11:56 AM
Greta Thunberg’s implicit support for Hamas is unsustainable
undermines Middle East
Nov 30, 2023, 9:53 PM
Israel ‘s modest presence at the Dubai climate conference is symbolic
Today, the annual “Conference of the Parties” (COP28) of the United Nations Climate Convention convenes in Dubai. Some 70,000 people are expected to join the event. Until recently, Israel’s original plans for national participation were ambitious: 1,000 Israelis from...
Nov 12, 2023, 1:03 AM
Two Eulogies in Two Days
On Thursday, along with thousands of others, I attended the funeral of Rose Lubin in Jerusalem. Rose was an American-Israeli: a lone soldier in a combat unit of Mishmar HaGvul, Israel’s border police. She was killed on November 6th...
Oct 28, 2023, 11:31 AM
Defeating Hamas also means preserving Israeli society’s integrity
While the IDF destroys Hamas, doing what needs to be done for the country’s security, we must also be vigilant in the protection of our country’s soul. Israeli society is a mosaic. When a mosaic is smashed, all of its...
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Alon Tal is a professor of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. In 2021 and 2022, he was chair of the Knesset's Environment, Climate & Health subcommittee.
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