Geula Cohen

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Geula (h) Cohen ( Hebrew גאולה כהן, born December 25, 1925 in Tel Aviv , League of Nations mandate for Palestine , died December 18, 2019 ) was an Israeli editor and politician .

Life

Geula Cohen had been a member of the right-wing terrorist movement Irgun since 1942 and of the Lechi terror group since 1943 , which the Arabs and British fought with violence. She was the editor of the newspaper of the Lechi Youth Front (English for: youth front ). After the founding of Israel in 1948, she published Sulam , a monthly magazine previously edited by the chairman of the Lechi, Israel Eldad . She married the Lechi activist Emanuel Hanegbi (עמנואל הנגבי, born in 1917 in Bialystok; died January 6, 1975 in Jerusalem); they had a son Tzachi Hanegbi (צחי הנגבי). From 1961 to 1973 she wrote for the Israeli newspaper Maariw .

She was also politically active and was a member of the Knesset from 1974 to 1992 . At first she was a Likud member. When Menachem Begin negotiated the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty with Anwar Sadat in 1979 , she founded the far- right Techija party in protest . The reason for this was that they refused to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt . One of the party's co-founders was Moshe Shamir , a member of the Movement for a Greater Israel .

Cohen died on December 18, 2019 at the age of 93. Her grave is on the Mount of Olives .

Awards

  • In 2003 she received the Israel Prize .
  • In 2007 she received the Yakir Yerushalayim , a kind of honorary citizenship of Jerusalem that has been awarded since 1967.

Published works

  • Story of a Fighter (1961) (Hebrew autobiography)
  • Geulah Cohen: Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943-1948 . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. (autobiography)
  • Historical Meeting (1986) (Hebrew)
  • Ein li koah lehiyot ayefa ("No strength to be tired") (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Guardian (English)
  2. ↑ Geula Cohen, pre-state underground fighter, veteran right-wing MK, dies at 93. The Times of Israel , December 19, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  3. ^ Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Recipient's CV . Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  4. ^ Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient . Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  5. ^ Recipients of Yakir Yerushalayim award (in Hebrew) . Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 11, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jerusalem.muni.il
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Geula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES גאולה כהן
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli editor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2019