Biography
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Born
7 July 1950 (age 73)
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Born In
Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
Riki Gal (Born on 7 July, 1950), Israeli singer and actress.
Gal born Rebeka Ben Avraham to an impoverished, extremely religious family in Meah She'arim in Jerusalem. Her childhood was not easy: Her parents divorced in 1952 when she was two years old. She and her brother were sent to an institution in Kfar Saba where she stayed until she was five. At that time her mother took her and her brother out of the institution and raised them herself. However, after some time she was not able to continue to do so and sent them to be raised by nuns under very strict discipline. She lived in a monastery until age eight. In 1960, at age 10, she went to live with her father in Tel Aviv and her brother stayed with their mother. After her father's second divorce, she went to live in Kibbutz Nir David and afterward in Kibbutz Baram.
After she finished her military service, in 1971 she married Yisrael Poliakov of the Israeli group Gashash ha-Hiver. In 1975, they divorced. She then went to New York and there married again, but this marriage also ended in divorce and she returned to Israel.
From 1990-2002, Gal was married to Uri Cohen-Aharonov, a news writer for Channel 1. They have a daughter named Liri who was born in 1991.
On April 21, 2005, the police caught Gal with 5 grams of cocaine. She was sentenced to 100 hours of public service
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