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Naomi Tsur Politician

Naomi Tsur (Hebrew: נעמי צור‎; born 8 September 1948) is an Israeli environmentalist, politician and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. As deputy mayor, Naomi Tsur was responsible for strategic planning, environmental protection, sustainability and historic conservation. She is the head of the new Ometz Lev Jerusalem party, that ran for the city council of Jerusalem in October 2013.Before her term as Deputy Mayor she was the head of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel in Jerusalem and coordinator of the Sustainable Jerusalem organization. In this time, Tsur fought many public environmental and social battles. The most significant was her fight to prevent urban sprawl into the Jerusalem Hills. The urban sprawl meant adding 20,000 housing units, using a western Jerusalem beltway inside the green Jerusalem hills. After taking up office in the city hall, she led Jerusalem’s recycling revolution, and integrated urban nature into planning major projects of significant public areas, such as the Gazelle Valley Urban Nature Park and the Railway Park.