1. Geulah Cohen was an Israeli politician and activist who founded the Tehiya party.
12 Facts About Geulah Cohen
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Geulah Cohen changed her political affiliation to Tehiya in 1979.
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Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine to a Mizrahi Jewish family of Yemenite, Moroccan and Turkish origin.
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Geulah Cohen was the daughter of Miriam and Yosef Cohen.
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Geulah Cohen studied at the Levinsky Teachers Seminary, and earned a master's degree in Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Literature and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Geulah Cohen was buried at the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery in Jerusalem.
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In 1972, Cohen joined Menachem Begin's Herut party, which was then part of the Gahal alliance.
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Geulah Cohen was elected to the Knesset the following year, by which time Gahal had merged into Likud.
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Geulah Cohen retained her seat in the 1981 elections, and Tehiya joined Begin's coalition government.
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Geulah Cohen's son, Tzachi Hanegbi, is a former Knesset member for the Likud.
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Geulah Cohen was a vocal critic of the Camp David Accords in 1978 and of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan from Gaza in 2005.
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Geulah Cohen described herself as a "woman of violence" in the pursuit of political ends.