Michael Fox

Michael Fox was born in 1934 in London

Michael Fox was born in London on 8 March 1934 to Sam and Freda Fox. He studied law at King's College London, part of the University of London, and finished in 1958.

In 1959 he opened a law office in London, Fox & Gibbons. In 1968 he moved to Israel with his wife. He trained at a law firm in Haifa and received his Israeli law license in 1969.

After arriving in Israel he volunteered for the IDF and fought in the Yom Kippur War.

In 1972 he founded Herzog, Fox & Neeman with Chaim Herzog and Yaakov Neeman. He worked in corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure, and left the firm in 2002. He chaired the Israel, Britain and the Commonwealth Association and wrote a monthly column for the English edition of Haaretz.

In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work on Israel-Britain relations. A book of his columns appeared in 2007. He was married to attorney Sheila Fox, lived in Herzliya, and died on 9 May 2009 after a long illness with cancer.