Reuven Gal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Reuven Gal

Israeli psychologist

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1942

Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel

Profession: military personnel, psychologist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Reuven Gal

  • Reuven Gal (Hebrew: ????? ???; born August 24, 1942, surname Gruber) is an Israeli social and clinical psychologist, a social activist and entrepreneur, researcher, author and consultant in the field of behavioral, communal and social sciences. Gal currently holds a dual academic position – as a senior research fellow at the Dan Shomron Institute for Social, Security and Peace Studies at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee; and as a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he is conducting several research projects related to Israeli society. In 2007, Gal established, within the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, the Administration for National Civic Service, which has been called "the Israeli equivalent of the Peace Corps." He served as its first General Director from January 2008 to August 2009, coordinating more than 12,000 youth volunteers coming from all ethnic and religious groups.Gal also served on the Israeli National Security Council as Deputy National Security Advisor for Domestic Policy (2002-2004), as Chief Psychologist (Commanding Officer of the Unit of Military Psychology) for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and as Chief Psychologist for the Israeli Navy (1969–1972).Gal is a sixth-generation descendant of Israel-born ancestors on his father's side.
  • The founding father of this chain of ancestors was Rabbi Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov.
  • Gal's father, David Gruber, was born in Jerusalem, Palestine.
  • His mother, Ester (Freiberg), was born in Bendjin, Poland and immigrated to Palestine in 1936.
  • The rest of her family members were murdered by German Nazis.Gal is the author or editor of six books: A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier (1986), Legitimacy and Commitment in the Military (1990), The Seventh War (1990), Handbook of Military Psychology (1991), Service Without Guns (2006), and The Yarmulke and the Beret: Religion, Politics and Military (2012).

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