Tamar Ron & Tamar Golan
Dr Tamar Ron was born and raised in Jerusalem. She obtained a BSc in Biology and an MSc in Environmental Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her PhD in Zoology was completed at Natal University, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Her adult life is dedicated to nature conservation, as well as to the welfare of wildlife in captivity, and to education about these issues. She was trained in endangered wildlife management at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, in Jersey Zoo. Over a six months period, she conducted an ecological and behavioural study for Chimfunshi Wildlife Sanctuary, a chimpanzee rehabilitation centre in northern Zambia.
During 1989-1991 she lived in Mkuzi Game Reserve in Zululand, South Africa, and followed the social behaviour of chacma baboons, for her PhD thesis. During 1992-2000 she served as the wildlife ecologist of the scientific division of the Nature Reserves Authority of Israel.
In 1998, the Angolan Vice-Minister of Environment invited Tamar to his country where she served on two short consultancy missions as a representative of the department of international cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. In 2000 she returned as a long-term consultant on biodiversity conservation to the Angolan government, with the support of the Norwegian government, through NORAD. In 2001 she was recruited as UNDP-Angola chief technical adviser (CTA) on biodiversity conservation, with continued NORAD support. She ended her mission and returned to Israel in 2005.
She now works as an independent biodiversity conservation consultant, and among other projects, has elaborated a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) framework for transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs).
Haifa-born Dr Tamar Golan is a former member of Kibbutz Lahav in Israel’s southern region; she returned to live there after completing her mission in Africa. She first went to Africa in 1961 with her husband Avihu, to lecture at the Agricultural College of Ethiopia in Harar City on behalf of the Department for International Cooperation of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Avihu died there.
In 1964, she was sent to New York, where she completed a doctorate in law and government at Columbia University, specializing in Africa. From 1967, Tamar Golan worked as a journalist for the BBC’s African Service, the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv and the Israeli Army Radio Station, reporting from Africa, the Arab states and Paris.
In 1994, Tamar Golan was appointed Israeli ambassador to Angola. With her presentation of her letters of credentials to President José Eduardo Dos Santos, on July 7, 1995, she launched the official Israeli presence in Luanda. After completing her term as ambassador, Tamar Golan returned to Angola at the request of the president of the republic, as a United Nations expert, to assist in establishing a National Commission for Landmine Action, annexed to the Angolan presidency. She returned to Israel in 2002.
Today, Dr. Tamar Golan lectures on African Affairs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Tamar Golan has written two books, Black White; White Black (MOD publishers), in 1986 and Africa, Africa (with Amnon Dankner, Ma’ariv Publishers), 1988.
Her adult life is dedicated to nature conservation, as well as to the welfare of wildlife in captivity, and to education about these issues. She was trained in endangered wildlife management at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, in Jersey Zoo. Over a six months period, she conducted an ecological and behavioural study for Chimfunshi Wildlife Sanctuary, a chimpanzee rehabilitation centre in northern Zambia.
During 1989-1991 she lived in Mkuzi Game Reserve in Zululand, South Africa, and followed the social behaviour of chacma baboons, for her PhD thesis. During 1992-2000 she served as the wildlife ecologist of the scientific division of the Nature Reserves Authority of Israel.
In 1998, the Angolan Vice-Minister of Environment invited Tamar to his country where she served on two short consultancy missions as a representative of the department of international cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. In 2000 she returned as a long-term consultant on biodiversity conservation to the Angolan government, with the support of the Norwegian government, through NORAD. In 2001 she was recruited as UNDP-Angola chief technical adviser (CTA) on biodiversity conservation, with continued NORAD support. She ended her mission and returned to Israel in 2005.
She now works as an independent biodiversity conservation consultant, and among other projects, has elaborated a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) framework for transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs).
Haifa-born Dr Tamar Golan is a former member of Kibbutz Lahav in Israel’s southern region; she returned to live there after completing her mission in Africa. She first went to Africa in 1961 with her husband Avihu, to lecture at the Agricultural College of Ethiopia in Harar City on behalf of the Department for International Cooperation of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Avihu died there.
In 1964, she was sent to New York, where she completed a doctorate in law and government at Columbia University, specializing in Africa. From 1967, Tamar Golan worked as a journalist for the BBC’s African Service, the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv and the Israeli Army Radio Station, reporting from Africa, the Arab states and Paris.
In 1994, Tamar Golan was appointed Israeli ambassador to Angola. With her presentation of her letters of credentials to President José Eduardo Dos Santos, on July 7, 1995, she launched the official Israeli presence in Luanda. After completing her term as ambassador, Tamar Golan returned to Angola at the request of the president of the republic, as a United Nations expert, to assist in establishing a National Commission for Landmine Action, annexed to the Angolan presidency. She returned to Israel in 2002.
Today, Dr. Tamar Golan lectures on African Affairs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Tamar Golan has written two books, Black White; White Black (MOD publishers), in 1986 and Africa, Africa (with Amnon Dankner, Ma’ariv Publishers), 1988.
