Yehuda Cohen

Yehuda Cohen was born in 1914 in Safed

Yehuda Cohen was born in Safed in 1914 to Menachem-Raphael and Leah Cohen. When he was a small child, the family moved to Beirut. There he finished the American high school and studied mathematics and science at the American college.

He studied law at the Mandatory law school and finished in 1940. He worked in the Mandate treasury and later as a bank clerk. He served in the Haganah, then in the British Army, and later in the IDF.

After an internship with David Goitein, he worked as a lawyer. In 1949 he became a judge of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court, and in 1954 a permanent judge of the Jerusalem District Court. He presided over that court from 1981 and joined the Supreme Court in 1982, retiring in 1984.

He held public roles, including chairman of the board of the Ezrat Nashim hospital from 1968 to 1993. In 1995 he was named head of a state inquiry commission into the Yemenite children affair, and he left it in 1999. He had 3 children with his wife Shulamit and died in 2009.