His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[3] He grew up in Jerusalem, served in the army, and studied at Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television.

[7] His 2002 film Yossi & Jagger is a portrayal of the love between two young Jewish military men while completing their mandatory national service.

In the 2004 film Walk on Water, he takes on the thorny topics of racism/discrimination and confronting the Nazi past of two young upper class Germans.

as the film follows three young Tel Aviv residents, a female political activist and her two gay roommates, one of whom (the same actor from Yossi & Jagger) falls in love with a Palestinian (who also appears as a waiter) while on border guard duty as part of his national military service.