Gal Uchovsky

Gal Uchovsky was born in 1958 in Hadera

Uchovsky was born in Hadera in 1958. His family lived in Vienna while his father studied there and returned to Hadera in 1963. He went to the Pardes Hana Agricultural High School and briefly played youth soccer for Maccabi Pardes Katz.

After the army he moved to Tel Aviv. He studied photography at the Camera Obscura school and law at Tel Aviv University. He also worked for about 7 years as a flight attendant at El Al.

In 1983 he was one of 3 publishers of a humor magazine. He wrote for the local paper Ha-Ir and became its editor in 1990. From 1993 he worked at Maariv as a music reporter and culture editor.

With Eytan Fox he wrote for the series Florentine and produced the films Yossi & Jagger and Walk on Water. He co-created The Bubble, which won him a screenwriting award at the Durban International Film Festival. He hosted many TV shows and sat on the judging panel of Kohav Nolad from 2006 to 2010.

He has lived in Tel Aviv with Fox since 1988 and co-founded Israel Gay Youth. In 2021 he stepped down as its president after sexual misconduct accusations led to a police investigation. In July 2022 police closed the case with no charges filed.