[1] Carmon was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and attended high schools in Jerusalem, Istanbul and Paris.

[2][1] Carmon served as the Consul and Administrative Officer, and as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[2][3][4][5] In 1995, he returned to Israel where he was assigned to the Situation Emergency Room in the Foreign Ministry, where he served as its head.

After serving in numerous positions within the ministry, he was appointed as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative at Israel's Mission to the United Nations in New York in 2005.

[2][6][7][8] Carmon has six children with his wife Eliora, who was killed in the 1992 Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing.