Moshe Kahtan was born in Baghdad, but lived for many years in England. A banker by profession, he served as head of international of the London Branch of Edmond Safra's TDB/Republic National Bank Group and then as UK representative of IDB and IDB New York. In the 1990s he served as vice-chairman of Likud-Herut GB and was a regular contributor to Scribe Magazine, covering the Arab/Israel conflict. Moshe made aliya in 2008.