Yael Gal, a native of Haifa, Israel, will join the Hebrew Studies staff in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Foreign Languages and Literature Department this fall. She will also serve as an affiliate faculty member of UWM’s Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies.
Gal has been teaching three levels of Hebrew at Nicolet High School since 2008. She also has been teaching middle school students at Milwaukee Jewish Day School since 2004, and she taught at both schools for several years in the 1990s.
At Nicolet, she teaches the only Hebrew language courses taught at a public high school in Wisconsin. She will continue to teach at Nicolet in the mornings.
At UWM, Gal will teach a first-semester Hebrew class focusing on the essential structure of the language as well as reading simple narratives, and a third-semester class that will involve reading selections from the Bible and later Hebrew literature while learning advanced grammar.
Gal earned her bachelor’s degree in English as a Second Language at the University of Haifa in Israel. In 2010, she received her post-baccalaureate teaching certificate in Hebrew language education at UWM.
