Environmental Activism
During his lifetime Tamir founded several environmental organisations:
- Council for a Beautiful Israel (1968)
- Non-factional Committee for Ecology (1970)
- Life and Environment Organization (1975)
- Israel Economic Forum on the Environment (1991)
He also launched the environmental journal Green Blue and White.
Tamir represented the Knesset at the First United Nations Conference on the Environment of Man in Stockholm in 1972, and was the Likud representative in the Knesset delegation that visited the United States Congress in 1975 and the German Bundestag in 1977.
Tamir won several prizes for his environmental activism, including the United Nations Environmental Prize and a Knesset Prize for "Achievements in the Area of Environmental Quality".
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