Azaria Alon
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Azaria Alon | |
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עזריה אלון | |
| File:Azaria Alon.jpg Azaria Alon in 2009 | |
| Born | 15 November 1918 |
| Died | 19 January 2014 (aged 95) |
| Occupations | Conservationist, Environmentalist |
| Spouse | Reut Alon |
| Children | 4 |
Azaria Alon (Hebrew: עזריה אלון; 15 November 1918 – 19 January 2014) was an Israel Prize-winning environmentalist, and a co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (HaHevra LeHaganat HaTeva).[1]
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Biography
[edit | edit source]Azaria Alon was born in Ukraine. His family immigrated to Palestine in 1925, settling on Kfar Yehezkel, a moshav in the Jezreel Valley. They moved to Kiryat Haim in 1932, the year in which he graduated from the Hebrew Reali School. Alon returned to the Jezreel Valley at the age of 20 to live on Kibbutz Beit HaShita. In 1952, he married Reut, with whom he had four children.[2]
Awards and recognition
[edit | edit source]Alon received an Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in 2012. He had previously been nominated for the Israel Prize when the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel won it in 1980.[3][4] Alon also entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the anchor of the oldest radio program.[5]
Books
[edit | edit source]- Israel National Parks & Nature Reserves : a Carta Guide, (2014), Carta, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ The fight to preserve Israel's environment has just begun, Haaretz
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- 1918 births
- 2014 deaths
- Israeli conservationists
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- Israel Prize for lifetime achievement & special contribution to society recipients
- People from Haifa
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- 20th-century Ukrainian Jews
- Hebrew Reali School alumni
- Immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah
- 21st-century Israeli Jews
- Ashkenazi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- Kibbutzniks