Uziel Gal

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he first moved to the United Kingdom and later in 1936 to Kibbutz Yagur in the British Mandate of Palestine, where he changed his name to Uziel Gal.[1] Gal began designing the Uzi submachine gun shortly after the founding of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.In 1955, he was decorated with the Tzalash haRamatkal and in 1958, Gal was the first person to receive the Israel Security Award, presented to him by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion for his work on the Uzi.He settled in Philadelphia so that his daughter, Tamar, who had serious brain damage, could receive extended medical treatment there.[2] Gal also assisted film-actors like Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick in their training to use automatic weapons in their movie roles.
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