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Dr Alon Tal, one of Israel’s leading environmentalists, manages to keep a good balance between academic research and public advocacy.

For the past few years, he’s been a member of Ben Gurion University faculty (following stints at the Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities, the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Stanford and Harvard Universities).

As an activist, among other things, he founded Adam Teva veDin, the Israel Union for Environmental Defense; the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies; the Green Zionist Alliance; and the Green Movement political party.

Although he is a Zionist, American-born Tal is adamant that Israel’s high birth rate must be curbed – and here he explains why.

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Tom Lehrer – The Elements
Indigo Girls – Love Will Come To You
Dixie Chicks – Goodbye Earl
Alison Kraus and Union Station – Little Liza Jane
Jackson Brown – Before The Deluge