Yitzhak Cohen

Yitzhak Cohen; Hebrew יִצְחָק כֹּהֵן; ( Born December 2, 1951 in Ashkelon ) is an Israeli politician. He worked as a member of the Knesset Shas since 1996. He was also a minister of religion and also Deputy Minister of Finance.

Life

Yitzhak Cohen was a municipal councilor and deputy mayor of the city of Ashkelon.

He was Secretary General of El HaMa'ajan (Hebrew אֶל המַעְיָן ), an educational institution of Shas, and received beginning in 1996, a seat in the Knesset. As deputy Kohen was in the Finance Committee, active in the Committee for Labour and Social Welfare, the Committee for Foreign and Foreign Affairs and the Defence Committee, the Community Committee for the defense budget and the special committee for constitutional issues, Law and Justice.

Cohen is also a member of the Knesset Forum in things lobby Middle East and lobby of immigrants from Ethiopia. He was Minister of Religion of 6 July 1999 to 11 July 2000 and 14 January 2008 to 31 March 2009. Moreover Kohen was Deputy Minister of Finance dated 2 May 2001 to 20 May 2002 of 3 June 2002 until 28 February 2003 and from 1 April 2009 to 18 March 2013.

In 2007, he criticized the U.S. report that Iran had stopped its nuclear program in 2003. He said that the report " was ordered by someone who wishes to dialogue with Tehran ." He compared this with the U.S. intelligence reports in the time of the Second World War, after which the trains running in the concentration camps were reportedly used for industrial transportation. In 2009, he threatened in an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel in order to break off diplomatic relations with the Vatican because of the controversy surrounding Richard Williamson.

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