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the country, on both sectors, and also gained success in
competitions abroad.
She began working as a trainer, at the age of just 16, at the
farm where she began riding. She continued training and
competing. For her military service she worked as a riding
instructor for the mounted police, and she was sent, by
the Police Force, to take a horse riding trainer’s course at
the Kanot Agricultural School (1992) which she passed
with distinction.
After completing her army service, Yael went to the
Netherlands in order to enhance her professional skills
in the fields of training and horse breeding, and also as a
competitor. All told, she spent a year and a half there, at
two farms.
In 1996 Yael started a degree in Faculty of Agriculture in
Rehovot, in the Animal Sciences Department, and completed
a bachelor’s degree. She continued working as a riding
instructor at the Kanot Agricultural School, and at Kfar Aviv
at a farm that specializes in therapeutic horse riding.
In 1999, together with her future husband, she moved to

Moshav Beit She’arim and, for 3 years, worked as a riding instructor at riding schools in the north of the country. She
continued competing in dressage and showjumping.

In 2000, Yael went with 9 other Israeli instructors for a 2 year trainer’s course, which took place in Israel and the
Netherlands. On completing the program Yael received a qualification as an international trainer (level 3).

In 2002, after their first daughter was born, the couple moved to Moshav Herut in the Sharon region. Over a period of 5
years Yael worked as a trainer and instructor at a number of leading ranches in the center of country.

Around this time Yael decided to expand her knowledge and skills in human movement, and improving motor skills. She
studied the Feldenkrais Method at Wingate College for 3 years and, in 2007, she qualified as a teacher. Since then Yael
has incorporated the Feldenkrais method in her riding lessons.

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