Michael Fox, MBE (8 March 1934 – 9 May 2009) was a British-Israeli lawyer. He was co-founder of Herzog, Fox & Neeman, Israel's largest law firm.[1]
Michael Fox was born in London, England, to Sam and Freda Fox. He studied law at the University of London (King's College London) and opened a private practice, Fox & Gibbons, in London, prior to his immigration to Israel in 1968.[2] He lived in Herzliya Pituah and was married to Sheila Israel, also an attorney. They had no children.[2]
He died in Jerusalem on 9 May 2009, after a decade-long battle with cancer.
Fox was a member of the International Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales. He was an expert in corporate law, especially in mergers & acquisitions and infrastructure development. He was chairman of the Israel, Britain and the Commonwealth Association (IBCA). Fox wrote a monthly column for the English edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.[2]
A selection of his Haaretz columns was published as a book with an introduction by the English writer and his childhood friend John Gross.
In 2003, Fox was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his contribution to Israel–British relations.[2]