Alice Miller

A fighter for gender equality

Alice Miller was born in 1972 in South Africa. She is the eldest of three children, a daughter of Brenda, a music lecturer and Rafi an accountant. At the age of six, she immigrated to Israel with her family and grew up in Hod Hasharon. She studied at the Mosinson Youth Village in Hod Hasharon.  

Miller studied aviation and aeronautics due to the fact that from an early age she dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and after graduating from high school, she received a civil pilot license in South Africa.

Due to this she was also interested in being accepted to an Air Force pilot course, but her application was rejected outright due to her being a woman. Miller is not the "type" who will accept these things, so she sent 120 letters to 120 MKs, in which she expresses her dissatisfaction with it.  

Ezer Weizmann, the president at the time, told her to call him, and in a conversation he spoke to her contemptuously.

In 1994, while a aeronautics student at the Technion as part of the academic reserve, she petitioned the High Court against the Ministry of Defense and the IDF regarding her non-admission to the pilot course only because she was a woman. Miller's petition was accepted by the High Court, and thanks to her, a pilot course, a seamanship course, various courses in artillery and anti-aircraft guns, the Border Police, etc. were opened to women. And still complete the course thanks to her.

Alice holds a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering and served as an officer in the Air Force,

Her most recent role in the Air Force was as a structure and manufacturing division commander at the Bear Field base.  

During her military service (lasting ten years) she completed a master's degree in business administration at Tel Aviv University. In 2005 she was discharged from the IDF with the rank of Major, after her release Miller ran a kayak and rafting company in India with her Indian husband Shalev Gallut.  

She returned to Israel and served as vice president of research and development at a company that establishes natural swimming pools, in a technology that allows the amount of chlorine in water to be reduced through wild plants. Alice won the High Court, but the business did not precede as the public was not interested in the issue.  

Alice Miller-Galette lives alternately with her husband and two daughters, in the village of Shwindi in the Himalayas, and in the small and ecological village of Kibbutz Hukok in Israel. At Kibbutz Hukok Miller she established a kindergarten, a growing school and a united community, where everyone is a friend of everyone. In India, she also ran a resort village with her husband.

On the 67th Independence Day of the country, Alice was chosen to light a beacon, everyone knows it is a great honor.

In 2016 Alice set up a small company where they built a system that checks why nature chooses spirals, they wanted to see if there is an advantage in flow in a spiral, compared to flow in a straight line. They found that there was a big advantage to flowing in a spiral, but were unable to raise money and the venture closed.

In 2020 Miller published her book "Alice Miller", which tells the story of her busy and fascinating life.  

Today, 50-year-old Alice is the mother of two daughters, Maya and Shanti, married to Shalev Gallut and still living in Kibbutz Hukok.  To continue reading about Alice today, click here

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