Career
Born in Jerusalem during the Mandate era, Cohen helped organise illegal Jewish immigration from Syria. He worked as a director of the Neighbourhoods Department on Tel Aviv Workers Council, and was a representative of the neighbourhoods (in particular, the Hatikva Quarter) on Tel Aviv City Council. Although he entered the Knesset on 19 May 1951 as a replacement for the deceased David Remez, he lost his seat in the July 1951 elections.
He returned to the Knesset following the 1959 elections, and was re-elected in 1961 and 1965, by which time Mapai had formed the Alignment alliance.
He lost his seat in the 1969 elections, and died in 1975.
