Geulah Cohen

Geulah Cohen was born in 1925 in Tel Aviv

Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv in 1925 to Miriam and Yosef Cohen. Her father came from Yemen, and her mother's family was of Moroccan and Turkish origin. She grew up in the Kerem HaTeimanim neighborhood.

She studied at the Levinsky Teachers Seminary and was expelled after joining the Irgun. She later earned a master's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying Jewish studies, philosophy, literature and Bible.

In Lehi she was an announcer for the underground radio station. The British arrested her during a broadcast in 1946 and sentenced her to 7 years in prison. She escaped in 1947 and edited the Lehi newspaper Youth Front.

From 1961 to 1973 she wrote for Maariv and sat on its editorial board. She joined Herut in 1972 and entered the Knesset for Likud. In 1979 she left Likud over the Camp David Accords and co-founded Tehiya, and in 1990 she became Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.

She lost her seat in 1992 and returned to Likud. In 1999 she founded the Uri Zvi Greenberg heritage house in Jerusalem. She received the Israel Prize in 2003 and died in 2019.