Azaria Alon (; 15 November 1918 – 19 January 2014) was an
Israel Prize
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History
Prior to the Israel Prize, the most significant award in the arts was the Dizengoff Prize and in Israel ...
-winning
environmentalist
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, and a co-founder of the
Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
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(HaHevra LeHaganat HaTeva).
Biography
Azaria Alon was born in Ukraine. His family immigrated to Palestine in 1925, settling on
Kfar Yehezkel
Kfar Yehezkel (, ''lit.'' Yehezkel Village) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, six kilometres southeast of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In the moshav had a population of .
History ...
, a moshav in the
Jezreel Valley
The Jezreel Valley (from the ), or Marj Ibn Amir (), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. It is bordered to the north by the highlands o ...
. They moved to
Kiryat Haim
Kiryat Haim ( ) is a neighborhood of Haifa. It is considered part of the Krayot cluster in the northern part of metropolitan Haifa. In 2008, Kiryat Haim had a population of just under 27,000. Kiryat Haim is within the municipal borders of ...
in 1932, the year in which he graduated from the
Hebrew Reali School
The Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (), located in Haifa, Israel, is one of the country's oldest private schools.[Kibbutz
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Beit HaShita. In 1952, he married Reut, with whom he had four children.
Awards and recognition
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.
Alon also entered the
Guinness Book of World Records
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as the anchor of the oldest radio program.
Azaria Alon, father of Israeli environmentalism, dies at 95
from the jerusalem post, 01/19/2014
Books
* ''Israel National Parks & Nature Reserves : a Carta Guide'', (2014), Carta,
See also
*List of Israel Prize recipients
This is an incomplete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 - 2025.
List
For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize website ...
References
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1918 births
2014 deaths
Israeli conservationists
Israeli Jews
Israel Prize for lifetime achievement & special contribution to society recipients
People from Haifa
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Ukrainian Jews
Hebrew Reali School alumni