Uziel Gal, inventor of the Uzi submachine gun

Uziel Gal

The story of Uziel Gal, creator of the Uzi submachine gun, which defended Israel from the 1950s and beyond. Born in Germany, his family fled the Holocaust to a small kibbutz where young Uzi developed an early interest in innovative weapons. Learn about his father, the noted Bauhaus artist Erich Glas who was forced from his job and home by the Nazis, his brother the award-winning educator Michael Gal, and a side-note about the film Terminator 2.

Female soldiers of the Israel Defense Force with Uzi submachine guns at a parade in the 1960s.

Second Lieutenant Avital with steel helmet and Uzi, May 31, 1967. Credit: Micha Han, Israeli Government Press Office.

Uziel Gal receiving Israel’s first Security Award from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.

Margalit Dehan of Kibbutz Ein Radian in Israel’s south cleans her Uzi, August 1, 1956. Credit: Fritz Cohe, GPO.

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• History of the Uzi - News 1

• Inventor Uzi Gal - Washington Post

• Lieutenant-Colonel Uziel Gal - The Telegraph

• Uziel Gal obituary - The Guardian

• Tommy Gun: How General Thompson's submachine gun wrote history

• Development of the Uzi

• Uzi Protects Queen of England

• Uziel Gal Wikipedia Hebrew

• Uziel Gal Wikipedia English

• Erich Glas - Bauhaus Artist - official web site

• Erich Glas Wikipedia German

• Erich Glas Wikipedia Hebrew

• Michael Gal Wikipedia Hebrew

• Terminator 2 firearm training

• Linda Hamilton’s Military Training for Terminator 2