Career
Born in Yemen, Cohen-Meguri made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1921. In 1927 he joined the Revisionist Zionist Betar movement, and in 1935 joined the Irgun. He was elected to the Knesset on Herut"s list in 1949.
Although he lost his seat in the 1951 elections, he returned to the Knesset on 6 July 1953 as a replacement for Aryeh Ben-Eliezer.
He was re-elected in 1955, 1959, 1961 and 1965, by which time Herut had allied with the Liberal Party under the name Gahal. He lost his seat in the 1969 elections.
He died in 2000 at the age of 87.