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Yinon Cohen

Yinon Cohen is an Israeli sociologist who holds the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi chair of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

born 1953Research on immigration and labor marketsStudies of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi gapsYerushalmi chair at Columbia University

Occupation: academic, university teacher
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stony Brook University, Stanford University

Yinon Cohen was born in 1953

Yinon Cohen was born in 1953 and grew up in Haifa. He finished high school in 1971. He is married to Professor Nitza Yanay.

He joined the Artillery Corps and later completed an artillery officers course.

He earned a sociology degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978. He received an M.A. in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 from Stony Brook University. He did postdoctoral work at Stanford University from 1982 to 1984.

From 1985 to 2011 he taught in the labor studies department at Tel Aviv University and chaired it from 1992 to 1995. He headed the Golda Meir Institute for Leadership and Society from 1998 to 2001. He joined Columbia University's sociology department in 2007 and chaired it from 2011 to 2014.

His research covers migration, labor markets, stratification and inequality, including gaps between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel. His appointment to the Yerushalmi chair drew criticism, because he had criticized Israeli policy and two search committee members were also critics of Israel.