Arye Carmon

Arye Carmon (Hebrew: אריה כרמון; born 1943) is the Founding President and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).

He helped to found the institute in 1991 as an independent think tank dedicated to promoting and strengthening democracy and democratic values in Israel.

He went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin with a major in European History and a minor in Educational Policy Studies.

In the 1980s he served as Chairman of the Israeli National Committee for Fostering Democratic Education.

Carmon has been a member of the International Council of Yad Vashem since 1979, and President of the Israeli-Diaspora Institute.