Actually, the gailil uses the firing mech from the AKM, and various parts of the Valmont from Finland and the Armorlite.
Yeah, but the IDF wasn't buying the FN FAL from Galil.
Actually, the milled-receiver Galil and short version Glilon use the milled receiver of the Finnish M62 Valmet. Uzi Gal's first prototypes literally used Finnish M62 Kalishnikov copy receivers as their primary component, combined with modified Colt light machinegun barrels and the improved magazine of Eugene Stoner's XM23/Stoner 63 5,56mm assault rifle/LMG system.
Accordingly the innards of the Galil, with which I'm VERY familiar, are interchangable with the earlier milled receiver *second Pattern* AK47, but NOT the AKM. I found this out to my complete satisfaction when I combined the innards of a North Korean Vietnam War souvenir whose barrel had been ruined by a lack of maintenance following the firing of around 2000 rounds of various AK tracer ammo and was therefore stripped of components that were then assembled onto a Finnish M62 receiver, the buttstock mounting being the most incompatable arrangement of the swap. A few years later I obtained a war-weary Galil that had taken a 7.62 Nato round through its receiver, and most of its components were transposed onto the Galil receiver, 5.56mm ammo and Galil magazines then being more easily available to me. Neither rework was particularly difficult, and the legendary AK reliability remained unchanged through allthe modifications...as did the usual AK mediocre accuracy.