Yitzchak Kohen

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Yitzchak Kohen

Yitzchak Kohen ; ( Hebrew יִצְחָק כֹּהֵן; * December 2, 1951 in Ashkelon ) is an Israeli politician . He has been a member of the Knesset for the Sephardic - ultra-orthodox Shas - party since 1996 . He was also Minister of Religion and Deputy Minister of Finance .

Life

Yitzchak Kohen was a councilor and deputy mayor of the city of Ashkelon.

He was general secretary of the El HaMa'ajan ( Hebrew אֶל המַעְיָן), an educational institution of the Shas, and received a seat in the Knesset for the first time in 1996 . As a MP, Kohen served on the Finance Committee, Labor and Social Welfare Committee, Guest Worker and Foreign Affairs Committee, and Defense Committee, the Community Defense Budget Committee, and the Constitutional, Law and Justice Special Committee.

Kohen is also a member of the Knesset Forum on Lobbying Middle East and Lobbying Ethiopian Immigrants . He was Minister of Religion from July 6, 1999 to July 11, 2000 and from January 14, 2008 to March 31, 2009. Kohen was also Deputy Minister of Finance from May 2, 2001 to May 20, 2002, from June 3, 2002 until February 28, 2003 and from April 1, 2009 to March 18, 2013.

In 2007 he criticized the US report that Iran had ended its nuclear program in 2003. He said that the report was "ordered by someone who wanted a dialogue with Tehran". He compared this with US intelligence reports during World War II that the trains going to the concentration camps were supposedly used for industrial transport. In 2009, in an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel , he threatened to break off diplomatic relations with the Vatican because of the controversy surrounding Richard Williamson .

Kohen lives in Ashkelon, is married and has ten children. He was educated at a Talmud school and speaks Ivrith , English and Arabic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knesset Member, Yitzhak Cohen Knesset website
  2. ^ Shas minister: Americans' attitude to report reminiscent of Auschwitz . Ynet News, September 12, 2007, accessed September 14, 2013
  3. ^ Israel's Relations to Vatican Strained Over Holocaust-Denying Bishop . dw-world.de, accessed on September 14, 2013
  4. ↑ Yitzhak Cohen . Jewish Virtual Library, accessed September 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Kohen, Yitzchak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יִצְחָק כֹּהֵן (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashkelon , Israel