Graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Continued her studies in New York with creators and researchers in the field of dance and movement. In Israel, she created interdisciplinary dance performances as part of dance festivals at the Susan Dellal Center. Graduated with a master's degree in directing from Tel Aviv University. In 2014, she founded the theater group Passport Ensemble.

Among her directorial works: Alaskan Kind by Harold Pinter, Mein Kampf by George Tabori, A Dream Play by August Strindberg, The Tower in the Air at the Israel Festival, An Eye for an Eye by Gilad Evron, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, Babushka by Adi Segev, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard Marie Colts and The Maids by Jean Genet. She also directed Beats , an interdisciplinary children's play, in conjunction with the Revolution Orchestra.

As part of the ensemble's work, she directed and adapted for the stage: Passport , a combination of texts by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Sholom, and testimonies of war refugee Yeshayahu Kagan, z"l. The adaptation won the Golden Hedgehog Prize. Citizen K. , based on the canonical literary work The Law by Franz Kafka. Leah , based on the autobiographical book He is the Light by Leah Goldberg, combined with texts from her diaries. Nominated for the Golden Hedgehog Prize for stage adaptation. Somewhere - writing, stage adaptation and directing inspired by the book To Be There by Jerzy Koczinski, combined with speeches by US presidents. Under the Sign of the Lotus - writing, stage adaptation and adaptation, based on the book of the same name by Dan Tsalka and combined with texts from his personal letters. The performances Leah and Somewhere are currently running at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Yael has created choreographies for plays in Israel and abroad. She taught for ten years at the School of Visual Theater and the Thelma Yellin School of the Arts. One of the founders of the acting track (direct track to a master's degree) at the Department of Theater Arts at Tel Aviv University. Since 2014, she has been the head of the acting track. She teaches acting and directing. She directs and teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Zurich. In November 2022, she directed the play Disney Killer By Philip Ridley, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Zurich.