Thursday, August 1, 2013

13-08-01 Meeting an Israeli icon - Azaryah Alon - nature preservation pioneer

Azaryah Alon is 95 years old, founder some 60 years ago of the Israeli Association for Preservation of Nature.  The first such organization in Israel.
He is known as a hiking guide and as a radio personality. For some 50 years he had a weekly radio show.
We met in the Jerusalem Hostel, and he got there by bus from Kibbutz Beit HaShitah, where he lives.  He said it cost NIS 18.00 for the trip from the Kibbutz to Jerusalem, and you can't beat that price... :)

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