Yitzhak Molcho

Yitzhak Molcho was born in 1945

Yitzhak Molcho was born on 30 January 1945. His father, Rafael Molcho, was among the founders of Israel Discount Bank, and his grandfather helped found the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem. He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School and was Jerusalem's youth tennis champion.

After the Six-Day War he married Shlomit Shimron, daughter of Erwin Shimron, and they have 2 daughters. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then worked for almost 2 years at a law firm in the United States.

He joined the firm Shimron, Molcho, Persky and Co. in 1970 and became its senior partner in 1978. The firm works in commercial and corporate law. He represented Professor Elisha Qimron in a copyright case over a Dead Sea Scroll reconstruction, which Qimron won.

During Netanyahu's first term he served as his political envoy and led the talks on the Hebron Protocol. In 2010 he was named head of Israel's negotiating team with the Palestinians, and in 2013 he joined secret meetings in Jordan with John Kerry. In October 2017, after a petition linked to the submarine affair, he asked to end his role, and his retirement was set for February 2018.