Haggai Carmon

Haggai Carmon was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv

Haggai Carmon was born in Tel Aviv in 1944 and grew up there. His father, Yehiel, ran a mortgage bank and wrote books on poetry and Far Eastern philosophy. His mother was a registered nurse.

From 1963 to 1965 he served in the Air Force, in charge of communications with transport flights abroad. In 1981 he finished law studies with honors at Tel Aviv University. He later studied for a master's degree in international law, government and politics at St. John's University in New York.

He became an adviser to Labor Party leader Shimon Peres and helped bring the sides together for the 1984 national unity government. Peres made him the Labor Party's delegate to the United States and sent him on a mission to the Philippines.

For 20 years he gathered intelligence under cover for U.S. federal agencies in about 30 countries. He also represented the U.S. government in Israeli civil courts and advised the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. He heads the law firm Carmon & Carmon and became Honorary Consul of Estonia in Israel in 2014.

He wrote 5 spy novels about Dan Gordon, a former Mossad agent, based on his own work. He also wrote law books on foreign judgments and cross border remedies. He is married to Rakefet Carmon, and they have 5 children.