Yigal Carmon
Yigal Carmon | |
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| Native name | יגאל כרמון |
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Romania |
| Allegiance | Israel |
| Branch | Israel Defense Forces |
| Years of service | 1968–1988 |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Unit | Intelligence Corps |
| Other work | Co-founder and president of MEMRI |
| Education | Degree in Orientalism from Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Yigal Carmon (Hebrew: יגאל כרמון; born 1946) is the president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications, radio and TV broadcasts, and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.
Carmon was a colonel at Aman, the Israeli military intelligence service, and later counter-terrorism advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir.