Career

Cohen is especially familiar with east Jerusalem, the topic of his book, Kikar Hashuk Reka (The Marketplace is Empty or: The Rise and Fall of Arab Jeruslaem), because of the years he spent as a correspondent for east Jerusalem affairs for the Israeli weekly Kol Ha"ir. He published extensively on the Palestinian internal refugees and on the 1948 war. Two of his books deal with Palestinian collaborators and the Israeli security agencies, using methodology that can be described as history-from-below.

The Jerusalem Post calls his books "an accessible mixture of academic research and vivid journalistic reporting.

Cohen manages to show empathy when relating human issues, but maintains a professional distance regarding events."

His book Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Services and the Israeli Arabs was published with the same press His latest book Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was published by Brandeis University Press, 2015.

Works

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  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967 (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict)

    ( This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem si...)

  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967 (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict) by Hillel Cohen (2011-02-25)
  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict) by Hillel Cohen (2011-01-19)
  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict) by Hillel Cohen (2011-01-19)

Politics

He first became known in other countries in 2008 when his book Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 was published with the University of California Press.