Edy Cohen

Edy Cohen (Hebrew: אדי כהן, Arabic: إيدي كوهين, born 18 February 1972) is an Israeli researcher, journalist and specialist in the Arab–Israeli conflict, He is a commentator on Arab social media.

Biography
Edward Haïm Cohen Halala was born in 1972 in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, to a wealthy Jewish family named Cohen Halala. He was educated at the Christian school in the city until the anti-Jewish kidnapping and murdering of his father in 1985. Cohen and his family were forced to emigrate from the country. In 1995, he immigrated to Israel.

Cohen has a bachelor's degree in political science, a master's degree, and a doctorate in Middle Eastern History, all from Bar-Ilan University. He also engaged in post-doctoral research at the Menachem Begin Center for Underground Movement Research, Bar-Ilan University. Cohen speaks Hebrew, Arabic, and French at a native level, and English and Spanish at a high level.

Books

 * 2017 "The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas," - A book about Mahmoud Abbas's doctoral thesis on the relations between Zionism and Nazism, 2017.
 * "The Mufti and the Jews," a book about the anti-Jewish activities of Haj Amin al-Husseini in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Germany and his cooperation with the Nazi government in the extermination of European Jews, 2021.