In 2007 the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education gave Gal-Ezer their Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.[4] She was the winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2015 Taylor L. Booth Education Award "for outstanding research and its practical application in the field of computer science education".[3] She is the 2017 winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, "for her central role in developing a groundbreaking high-school computer science curriculum, her outstanding CS education research and her extensive service to the education community".[1]