He worked as a political cartoonist for the Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv and for the Jerusalem Post.
Karl Goldberger (Hungarian: Gárdos Károly) (later Kariel Gardosh) was born in Budapest in 1921 to an assimilated Jewish family.
Gardosh was sent to mine copper as forced labor, and his parents and most of his family were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Gardosh and three of his colleagues at Maariv - Yosef Lapid, Ephraim Kishon and Yaakov Farkash (Ze'ev), were affectionately called "the Hungarian mob."
In 1981–1983 Gardosh worked at as a Cultural attaché at the Israeli embassy in London He had two children with his first wife, Shoshana Roman, and lived with his partner Tova Pardo until his death of heart failure on 28 February 2000, at the age of 78.