Menachem Cohen

Menachem Cohen
Date of birth	5 July 1922
Place of birth	Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
Date of death	11 March 1975(1975-03-11) (aged 52)
Knessets	1, 4, 5, 6
Party	Alignment (1965-1968, 1969)
Former parties	Mapai (1951, 1959-1965) Labor Party (1968-1969)

Menachem Cohen (Hebrew: מנחם כהן‎, born 5 July 1922, died 11 March 1975) was an Israeli politician.

Biography

Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era, Cohen helped organise illegal Jewish immigration from Syria. He worked as a director of the Neighbourhoods Department on Tel Aviv Workers Council, and was a representative of the neighbourhoods (in particular, the Hatikva Quarter) on Tel Aviv City Council.

In the 1949 Knesset elections he was on the Mapai list, but failed to win a seat. Although he entered the Knesset on 19 May 1951 as a replacement for the deceased David Remez,^[1] he lost his seat in the July 1951 elections. He returned to the Knesset following the 1959 elections, and was re-elected in 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment alliance. He lost his seat in the 1969 elections, and died in 1975.

References

1. ^ Knesset Members in the First Knesset Knesset website

External links

• Menachem Cohen Knesset website

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Name	Cohen, Menachem
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Date of birth	5 July 1922
Place of birth	Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
Date of death	11 March 1975
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