Zvi Galor

From 1976 to 1978, Galor participated in the establishment of a moshav in the Jordan Valley. He was also a member of Moshav Kfar Vitkin's Executive Committee from 1978 to 1980. Since his retirement, Galor has been involved in the creation of many cooperative projects in both developing and developed countries working mainly as a consultant. His writings and research have served as a guideline for these projects, particularly for the creation of cooperatives in rural areas and the development of these regions.

Dr. Zvi Galor (צבי גלאור), born in 1939, is an Israeli expert on cooperatives.

Born in 1939 in Kfar Vitkin, Zvi Galor earned his bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1966. In 1987 he obtained his master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with honors, and in 2017, at the age of 78, received his doctoral degree from Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan. From 1980 to 2002, Galor served as the pedagogical director of the English and French internships at the International Institute for Labour, Development and Cooperative Studies in Tel Aviv (ILDEC), which in 1994 became part of the International Institute of the Histadrut. This institute provides trainees from countries all over the world with advanced training sessions in cooperative management and development. In 1996 Zvi Galor became the institute's academic director, In this position he initiated dozens of pedagogical overseas missions in situ, organizing training courses run by the institute's instructors directly in the students' country of origin. These projects took place in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and Oceania.