Joel Carmel made Aliyah from the UK in 2011. He studied at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and the Hebrew University, and served in the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories unit (COGAT) in the IDF. He now works for Breaking the Silence, an organisation of IDF veterans who publish testimonies of soldiers who served in the occupied territories, in order to stimulate public debate about the price of the ongoing occupation. Joel lives with his wife and daughter in Jerusalem.