Gil grew up in Israel and lives in Sweden. He began following the Eurovision Song Contest at the age of five, when the contest was held in Jerusalem in 1999. Gil is blogging about the Eurovision Song Contest since 2008, is a production member of Israel Calling since 2016 and worked behind the scenes of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest held in Tel Aviv. In 2020, Gil completed his BSc in Media Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and is a current student for MSc in Machine Learning at the same institute.