Gal Rachman was born in 1977 in the Mateh-Asher region in north of Israel and is living in Germany since 2011. After years of managing international business operations while voluntarily supporting aid projects around the world, he decided to commit himself to the humanitarian sector and during the refugee crisis in 2015 joined the organisation Stadtmission. In early 2017 Gal became the CEO of IsraAID Germany and received together with his team the National Integration Prize from the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018.