Hillel Cohen (born 1961) is an
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
i scholar who studies and writes about the
PalestinianThe Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine...
Arabs. He is a Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university....
.
Cohen is especially familiar with
east JerusalemEast Jerusalem refers to the parts of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Al-Aqsa...
, the topic of his book,
Kikar Hashuk Reka (The Marketplace is Empty), because of the years he spent as a correspondent for east Jerusalem affairs for the Israeli weekly
Kol Ha'irKol HaIr is a weekly local newspaper published in Jerusalem, Israel. It is part of the The Shoken Group publishing network.-See also:*List of Israeli newspapers...
.
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Hillel Cohen (born 1961) is an
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
i scholar who studies and writes about the
PalestinianThe Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine...
Arabs. He is a Research Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem is Israel's oldest university....
.
Cohen is especially familiar with
east JerusalemEast Jerusalem refers to the parts of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Al-Aqsa...
, the topic of his book,
Kikar Hashuk Reka (The Marketplace is Empty), because of the years he spent as a correspondent for east Jerusalem affairs for the Israeli weekly
Kol Ha'irKol HaIr is a weekly local newspaper published in Jerusalem, Israel. It is part of the The Shoken Group publishing network.-See also:*List of Israeli newspapers...
. 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."
He first became known in other countries in 2008 when his book
Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948Army of Shadows is a book by Hillel Cohen. It was published in Hebrew in 2004, translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman and published in English by the University of California Press in 2008, where the first chapter can be read at their website...
was published in English. He also collaborated with
Benny MorrisBenny Morris is professor of History in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Be'er Sheva, Israel. He is a key member of a group of Israeli historians known as the 'New Historians', because they are rewriting the history of Israel since its...
for the writing of his last book in going through Palestine's Arabic newspapers from 1947 to 1948 for him.