Yigal Arnon

Yigal Arnon was born in 1929 in Tel Aviv

Yigal Arnon was born in Tel Aviv in 1929 to Shammai and Esther, who came from a family of rabbis. As a child he moved with his family to Jerusalem. He studied at the Sokolov school and the Hebrew Gymnasium in Rehavia.

In 1947 he volunteered for the settlement police. In the War of Independence he fought with the Etzioni Brigade and was badly wounded near the Old City walls. He later served in the IDF as commander of the Schneller camp.

He studied in the first class of the Hebrew University law faculty and was licensed as a lawyer. In 1958 he set up his law firm in Jerusalem, and in 1980 he moved its center to Tel Aviv. He chaired the Jerusalem district committee of the Bar from 1972 to 1979 and lectured at the Hebrew University from 1977 to 1979.

He chaired the First International Bank of Israel from 1987 to 2000 and later Arkia Israel Airlines. He represented clients in public trials, including Ehud Olmert and Aryeh Deri. He was injured in an accident in 2010 and died at his home in Tel Aviv in 2014.