Yigal Carmon - Career

Career

  • Colonel, IDF Intelligence from 1968–88
  • Acting head and adviser on Arab affairs, Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, 1977–1982
  • Counterterrorism adviser to prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin 1988-93
  • Delegate, Israeli peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington in 1991-92
  • Founder and President, MEMRI, 1998–present

Carmon is fluent in Arabic. He has also testified before the US Congress and European parliaments.

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