Batel completed her MA in Environmental Studies with a focus on urban sustainability at Tel Aviv University's Porter School and has a BA in Political Science from Stern College Yeshiva University.

She came to JGF after coordinating the Sustainability Center of Gilo, Jerusalem, where she worked with residents and elementary schools. Batel currently directs a sustainability center for the Haredi community run jointly by the JGF and the Romema Community Center. Through this center she also initiates out-reach to the wider Haredi community of Jerusalem.

Batel made aliyah in 2004 and lives in Tekoa with her husband and 4 children.

Timna has a B.Sc in environmental science and geography and is now working on an M.A in prehistoric archaeology and natural resource management. She worked in the Society for Protection of Nature and in the Environmental Education Department in the Jerusalem Municipality. She worked at the Jerusalem Green Fund since its establishment in various projects related to urban agriculture and community sustainability.

Today she is leading three projects in JGF: the "A planter for every windowsill" in Reshit school in Kiryat Menachem, as part of the neighborhood sustainability forum which she coordinates. She managers the "Regional Partnership for the Promotion of a Biosphere Reserve in the Jerusalem Hills". She heads a civil society team working on behalf of the Sustainable Jerusalem Lobby, working on writing a mitigation and adaptation plan for climate change for Jerusalem with the municipality.  

Esther made Aliyah in 1997 and has lived in Jerusalem ever since.  She has worked as an environmental educator, facilitating community building with people of all ages, and from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds.

Previously she worked with the Society for Protection of Nature and collaborated with the Community Council  in the Environmental Education Department in the Jerusalem Municipality. She joined the Jerusalem Green Fund team in 2019, working on various projects related to urban agriculture and community sustainability.

Today she manages the Bustania community garden, creating a platform for environmental education, social events and community gardening. She also co-founded and oversees the neigbourhood food saving pilot in Kiriyat Hayovel.

Eileen has just completed her MA at Hebrew University in Nonprofit Management and Leadership in 2020, a field she has worked in Israel for over 25 years. She graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1976, with BA’s in International Finance and Sociology.

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In 2015, she established an internship program at Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School where she supervised, guided and taught over 110 MA Nonprofit Management and Leadership students hailing from all corners of the globe.

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Eileen represented Israel abroad in different missions, first in Greece, later in Rochester, NY. She worked with the late Mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, organizing international events for the Jerusalem Events Center.  She established and served as either a chairperson, board member and/or organizational consultant for private concerns and various NPO’s, including the Australian Friends of Orr Shalom’s Children’s Homes, Hadassah Women, Association of American and Canadians in Israel (AACI) and Kehillat Yaar Ramot.

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Eileen, from southern Florida, is married to Professor Doron Steinberg, Assistant Dean of the Hadassah Dental School, a 12th generation Jerusalemite. They have 4 children and 6 grandchildren all living in Israel.

ישראל סמית בוגר אוניברסיטת בר אילן , עם תואר ראשון בחינוך ושני בבלשנות. עבד בתור נגר, מרצה באוניברסיטה, ולאחרונה מנהל בית מדרש קהילתי בירושלים ותכנית לימוד נשי אונליין לתלמידות בכל העולם. בשנים האחרונות ישראל הרגיש צורך חיוני להיות פעיל בענייני סביבה, גם בתור אקטיביסט. בקרן ירושלים ירוקה הוא עוזר באדמיניסטרציה וגם מקדם שיתוף פעולה בגוש עציון. ישראל גר בתקוע, גוש עציון עם אשתו.