Aviad Hacohen

Aviad Hacohen was born in 1962

Aviad Hacohen was born in Israel in 1962. His father, Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, was a Knesset member, and his mother, Devorah Hacohen, was a historian. He studied at Netiv Meir yeshiva high school and later at Yeshivat Har Etzion and Yeshivat HaKotel.

He earned a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989 and a master's degree there in 1993. He completed his PhD at the same law school in 2003, under Professor Menachem Elon.

He began teaching at Bar-Ilan University in 1995 and at the Sha'arei Mishpat college in 1996, where he directed its center for Jewish law. He founded Mosaica, a center for the study of religion, society and state, and is the legal commentator of the newspaper Israel Hayom. As a lawyer he has represented petitioners in public cases on women's rights, divorce, conversion and discrimination in education.

His name was on the final list of candidates for the Supreme Court in 2011, 2016 and 2021, but he was not chosen. In 2017 he became president of the Sha'arei Mada U'Mishpat Academic Center and dean of its law school. He is married to Elisheva and lives in Jerusalem.