Geulah Cohen

Geula ( h) Cohen (Hebrew גאולה כהן, born December 25, 1925 in Tel Aviv, the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is a former Israeli politician and publisher.

Life

Geula Cohen was a member of the right-wing terrorism Irgun movement and since 1943 the terrorist group Lehi who fought the Arabs and Britons with acts of violence since 1942. She was publisher of the newspaper of the Lehi Youth Front (English for: Youth Front ). After the establishment of Israel in 1948, she published Sulam, a monthly magazine, which had been previously issued by the chairman of Lehi, Israel Eldad. She married the Lehi activists Emanuel Hanegbi ( עמנואל הנגבי, born in 1917 in Bialystok, died January 6, 1975 in Jerusalem); they had one son Tzachi Hanegbi ( צחי הנגבי ). From 1961 to 1973, she wrote for the Israeli newspaper Maariw.

She was also politically active and sat from 1974 to 1992 in the Knesset. At first she was Likud member. As Menachem Begin in 1979, along with Anwar Sadat negotiated the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty, she founded to protest the extreme right party Techija. Reason that she refused to Egypt return the Sinai Peninsula again. One of the founders of the party was Moshe Shamir, a member of the Movement for Greater Israel.

Awards

• In 2003 she was awarded the Israel Prize.
• In 2007 she received the Yakir Yerushalayim, a kind of honorary citizen of Jerusalem, which is awarded Jewish Israelis since 1967.

Published works

• History of a fighter ( 1961) ( Heb. autobiography)
• Geulah Cohen: Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943-1948. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. ( Autobiography )
• Historic meeting ( 1986) ( Hebrew)
• A li Koah lehiyot ayefa ( " No force to be tired " ) (2008 )