Yigal Carmon (Hebrew יגאל כרמון) is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). He is a colonel in the Israel Defense Forces reserves.

According to MEMRI's original site:

He served in the IDF/Intelligence Branch from 1968 to 1988. From 1977 to 1982 he was the Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Civil Administration. Following Col. Carmon’s retirement from the IDF he was Advisor to Premiers Shamir and Rabin for Countering Terrorism from 1988 to 1993. In 1991 and 1992 he was a senior member of the Israeli Delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington.

During his time in Military Intelligence, he became a senior officer of its Unit 504 , a small secret unit dedicated to human intelligence which was particularly active in Lebanon[1] and administers Facility 1391 , a prison described by critics as "Israel's Guantanamo". Between 1994-1996, he argued that "public declarations made by Arafat and his associates contradicted the spirit of the Oslo accords and reflected their genuine intentions." (Yossi Melman)