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Chen Alon
Chen Alon is an Israeli lecturer, activist and co-founder of Combatants for Peace. Alon is the theatre director of the movement. He was nominated, along with Palestinian Combatants for Peace co-founder, Sulaiman Khatib, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Alon served for four years as an officer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), upon his release he served eleven years as an operations officer in the reserves. Later he became a ‘refusenik’, and co-founded the group ‘Courage to Refuse’, a group of former IDF officers and combat soldiers refusing to serve in the occupied territories. As a result, he served time in jail. Dr Alon is the head of the ‘Community Theatre and Artivism (Art & Activism)’ programme in the Theatre Arts Department of Tel Aviv University.
Contact: Tel Aviv University, Chaim Levanon Street 55, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6997801, Israel.