Naomi Tsur is the initiating founder of the Jerusalem Green Fund. After 12 years as Director of the Society for the Protection of Nature and Coordinator of the Sustainable Jerusalem Coalition, she served for 5 years as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem (2008-2013).

Under Tsur’s leadership, the Gazelle Valley, originally a real-estate project, became Israel’s first Urban Nature Park and the abandoned eight kilometers of the Old Railway track between Malha and the First Station evolved into the much-loved Railway Park. Tsur opened up municipal committees to the public and also created new frameworks for civic engagement in urban planning and policy. Tsur currently chairs the Israel Urban Forum.

Richard serves as the Vice-Chair for the Jerusalem Green Fund. After retiring as the Development Director for StandWithUs for 7 years, Richard helped launch a new amuta in Israel - The Michael Levin Base. Richard serves as the Chairman of the Board for this dynamic non profit that supports lone soldiers in the IDF and lone b'not sheirut (who are doing national service).

Richard and his wife, Jean, made aliyah from New Jersey in 2011 to join their two sons' families who also live in Jerusalem.  Richard had an extensive career in Jewish communal service in the U.S., notably as the President of Rutgers University Hillel and the Director of the JCC of Central N.J. for 21 years.

Prof. Ehud Ziv is Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, after serving for many years as Director of the Lipid Research Lab and Diabetes Unit, in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel.  Ziv served as Chair of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel from 1998-2012 and is active in the Israel Diabetic Society.

Carol made aliyah in 2014 with her husband Mark and currently lives in the Arnona section of Jerusalem.  Carol was a project manager while living in New Jersey but now has retired.

With all this new free time as a retiree, Carol spends her days and nights with her grandchildren, her passion of singing in theater and choir, cooking meals for the Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levine, and of course being environmentally responsible while serving as a board member of the Jerusalem Green Fund. 

Reuven M. Schwartz, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist for over 40 years in the US, made aliyah with his wife, Amy, in 2015 from Pittsburgh and both remain infatuated with life in Israel. He was inspired by the vice-chair of the JGF, Richard Corman, to get involved in making Jerusalem a cleaner city. In 2016 Reuven piloted a program in Talpiot and Arnona neighborhoods whereby businesses in congested areas would adopt an ad-hoc garbage frame holding a bag. Reuven has written for the Jerusalem Post on issues of cleanliness in the public domain and advocated for the city to install a garbage bin at every bus stop (recently committed to by the Mayor!). 

Karen Stahl-Don is a licensed attorney in Israel and the US. She received a BA and MA from the University of Michigan in Near Eastern Studies/Arabic and studied Arabic at the American University of Cairo and at the Bourguiba Institute in Tunisia. She received her law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her LLM from Cardozo School of Law. In New York she worked in commercial litigation and grassroots environmental litigation. She has lectured and published articles on various aspects of international law, specializing in the legality of the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. She currently lives in Jerusalem and serves on the board of the Jerusalem Green Fund and supports the Sustainable Jerusalem Lobby.

Shoshana Shinnar made aliyah in 2015 from New York, has been a stakeholder since 2016, and currently serves on the board of the JGF. She met Naomi Tsur at a Sustainable Nutrition Conference at TAU, when looking for someone from Jerusalem, who had a wide view of the environmental movement in Israel. The match was made. Shoshana believes that instead of wasting valuable time looking for volunteer opportunities, people should be able to join a local network of organizations and volunteers; therefore one of her initiatives with the JGF is creating such a dynamic database.

As part of living her values, Shoshana has taught her own children by example and led them to live a sustainable lifestyle without calling it by name. So her real passion for being an environmentalist is “selfish”- that her children and grandchildren should merit to live in a happy and sustainable world.

David Zwebner grew up in South Africa, and since making Aliya in 1966, has lived in Jerusalem with his wife, Ronit and family. After conducting in-depth research about ancient and modern-day Ashkelon, he recently published a book celebrating the story of the city.

After being a stakeholder for a couple of years, David joined the board of the JGF in the understanding that Jerusalem's greatest challenge is to become a sustainable and equitable UNITED city.

Dr. Stuart Stanton is an emeritus Professor of Urogynecology, from the University of London. Over the years he worked as a volunteer consultant, surgeon and teacher in the Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Hadassah Ein Kerem. In 2016 the Knesset awarded Stuart a Certificate of Appreciation, for his services to Urogynecology in Israel.  

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He made Aliyah two years ago and lives in the German Colony. He is now patiently learning Hebrew. Stuart volunteers teaching conversational English at Boys Town Jerusalem High School and at ESRA. After becoming a stakeholder of the JGF in 2020, he later became the newest addition to the JGF Board.  

Tsvi Gassner received his degree in Aeronautical Engineering in San Diego at California State University. He went on to spend 45 years in the industry, spending 15 years specializing in Aircraft and Jet engines maintenance and 4 years in Medical  equipment development. He ran two private companies. Additionally, Tsvi studied marketing at the Technion Out Studies Division and has extensive experience in Product Development and International Marketing in a number of different companies, and holds patents for ten different products. Tsvi went on to teach Marketing at the Industrial Product Design at Bezalel Academy. Currently retired, Tsvi continues to assist, advise, and provide guidance to numerous companies and organizations, both young and old.