Gal Gadot
Gadot in 2013, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Petah Tikva, Israel
Date of Birth: 30 April, 1985
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. She was Miss Israel 2004, and is known for starring as Gisele Yashar in the Fast and Furious films; as Wonder Woman in the DC Cinematic Universe, starting with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016); and for her roles in the films Date Night, Knight and Day, Kicking Out Shoshana, Triple 9, Criminal (2016), Keeping Up with the Joneses, Red Notice, Death on the Nile (2022), and Heart of Stone. She is 5′10″.
Gal was born to a Jewish family in Israel. She is the daughter of Irit, a physical education teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer, and was raised partly in Rosh HaAyin. Her father is a sixth-generation Israeli. Her family were Jewish emigrants from Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, and Ukraine. Gal is married to Israeli real estate developer Jaron “Yaron” Varsano, with whom she has four children. Jaron has Turkish Jewish ancestry.
In Hebrew, Gal means “wave” and Gadot means “riverbank” or “shore.” Her family’s name was originally Greenstein.
Gal’s paternal grandfather is Arye Zeev Greenstein (the son of Michael Greenstein and Shulamit Natkin/Notkin). Arye was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Michael was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, the son of Wolf Leib Grinstein and Sara Goldberg. Gal’s great-grandmother Shulamit was born in Jerusalem, Israel, where many generations of her family had been born, and was the daughter of Natan Neta Natkin and Hana Lea/Leah Michlin. Gal’s great-great-grandfather Natan, whose family was from Jerusalem, had ancestors from Belarus and Lithuania, including evident descent from Talmudist Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov (1770-1839), who was born in Shklov, Lithuania. Gal’s great-great-grandmother Hana was born in Jerusalem, to a father from Khislavichi, Russia, and a mother who was born in Jerusalem, to a father from Yassvein, Lithuania, and a mother from Jerusalem, who had ancestors in Lithuania and Belarus.
Gal’s paternal grandmother was named Miriam Glicksman (the daughter of Samuel Glicksman). Miriam was evidently born in Austria.
Gal’s maternal grandfather was Abraham Weiss (born Adolf Weiss, the son of Zeev Weiss and Yehudit Yakubovitz). Abraham was born in Mukacheve, Zakarpats’ka oblast, Ukraine, and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. He lost most of his family in the Holocaust. Gal discusses her grandfather, along with a picture, at this, this, and this link. Gal’s great-grandfather Zeev was the son of Yakov Weiss and Tzipora Klein. Gal’s great-grandmother Yehudit was killed in Auschwitz, in 1944. She was the daughter of Dov Yakubovitz and Bluma.
Gal’s maternal grandmother was Rachel Yehudit Kaufman (the daughter of Isaac Kaufman/Koffman and Tzarka Messenberg). Tzarka was the daughter of Shmuel Messenberg and Chaya.
Gadot in 2013, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Sources: Information about Gal’s background – http://www.ynet.co.il
http://www.rollingstone.com
Genealogy of Gal Gadot – https://www.geni.com
I love how people are calling her a ‘WOC’. yet at the same time call Natalie Portman a white woman. Both are Israeli of European descent. Weird
It may have something to do with the fact that those people aren’t too bright.
No, she’s not of European descent. She’s Jewish/Middle Eastern. Do you really think this woman looks German/Polish/Czech lol? Just because Ashkenazi Jews lived in Europe for so long doesn’t mean they have become ethnic Europeans. Another comparison is the Roma people whose ancestor came from Northern India and have been living in Europe for hundreds of years, but still are nor considered ethnic Europeans.
lelo, Roma people mixed extensively with southern and eastern Europeans (mostly Greeks and other people in the Balkans). But yeah, somehow Europeans still managed to persecute them.
She appears to have some Asian admixture?
what is she?she looks like a plain white girl
Why does she have two pictures when everyone else has one?
Because she is stunning.
Ariana Grande has two as well, and she isn’t even stunning. She looks like a less attractive Marisa Tomei.
Why do only certain people get two pictures?
Cara should have two because she is stunning.
It just worked out that way. Only Gadot and Grande have two.
Not right. Inequality.
Equality is for Mexicans and Mormons only.
Cara Delevingne is the prettiest Jewish model. Bar Refaeli and Bar Paly are tied at second. Erin Heatherton is third. Gal Gadot and Esti Ginzburg are tied at fourth. They are all stunning. Prettier than the rest of the models in the entire business. I wish Ginzburg and Paly would become more famous. Refaeli, Gadot, and Heatherton are pretty popular; Delevingne is, of course, the most popular of them all.
Refaeli is more popular than Delevingne. And you know Delevingne is barely Jewish.
I think that having 1/16 Jewish ancestry is enough for you to consider yourself Jewish.
And I do not think Refaeli is more popular than Delevingne. Delevingne has way more followers on Instagram.
Refaeli was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and other things.
Cara modeled for Victoria’s Secret and was also in their most recent fashion show. Plus, she gets a lot of attention for being besties with Rihanna. She became very popular after dating Harry Styles. Or at least the tabloids thought she was dating him.
Anyway, she is striking.
In regards to a previous comment I made, I don’t actually think that Gal Gadot is ugly by any means. I’m sorry to anyone who I may have offended in the past.