Gedalia Gal

Gedalia Gal was born in 1933 in Magdiel

Gal was born in Magdiel in 1933, to a family that was among the founders of the moshava. He studied at the Shevah vocational school in Tel Aviv and qualified as a metalworker. As a youth he was a counselor in the local Working Youth branch and, during the War of Independence, served as a runner for the Haganah commander in Magdiel.

In 1954 he married Rachel Goldberg and settled on his parents' farm in Kfar Vitkin. That year he joined a volunteer project of the Moshavim Movement and spent a year as an instructor in Moshav Maslul. He later held several posts in the movement and served as its secretary from 1987 to 1988.

He was elected to the Knesset in 1988 on the Alignment list and worked on a 1992 law on moshav debts known as the Gal law. Re-elected in 1992, he chaired the Finance Committee and led the passage of the Electricity Law. He helped found the Third Way but stayed in the Labor Party and was not re-elected in 1996.

After leaving the Knesset he headed Tnuva until 2001. He later chaired the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and the Ammunition Hill board. He lives in Kfar Vitkin and raises livestock.