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Ran Cohen (born 20 June 1937) is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
i politician and former Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 member for Meretz-Yachad
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion
Mevaseret Zion

Mevaseret Zion is a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel. Today, Mevaseret Zion is composed of two distinct settlements?Maoz Zion and Mevaseret Yerushalayim?under the jurisdiction of one local council....
 and married with four children.

Born in Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
, Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
 through Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
. He grew in kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 Gan Shmuel, where he absorbed Socialist
Socialism

Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
 and Zionist
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 ideologies. During his military service he rose to the rank of Colonel
Colonel

Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures....
 (Aluf Mishne). After the military he obtained a B.A.






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Ran Cohen (born 20 June 1937) is an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
i politician and former Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 member for Meretz-Yachad
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion
Mevaseret Zion

Mevaseret Zion is a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel. Today, Mevaseret Zion is composed of two distinct settlements?Maoz Zion and Mevaseret Yerushalayim?under the jurisdiction of one local council....
 and married with four children.

Born in Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
, Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East 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 relatively small area....
 through Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
. He grew in kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
 Gan Shmuel, where he absorbed Socialist
Socialism

Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
 and Zionist
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 ideologies. During his military service he rose to the rank of Colonel
Colonel

Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures....
 (Aluf Mishne). After the military he obtained a B.A. in philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 and Economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
 at Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a large, public university, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000....
.

Political career

In 1984 he was first elected to the Knesset
Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
 as a member of Ratz (headed by Shulamit Aloni
Shulamit Aloni

Shulamit Aloni is an Israeli politician and left-wing activist. She is a prominent member of the Israeli peace camp, founded the Ratz party and was leader of the Meretz party and served as Education Minister of Israel from 1992 to 1993....
) after he headed the Left Camp of Israel
Left Camp of Israel

The Left Camp of Israel was a Left wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was also known as Sheli , an acronym for Peace for Israel ....
 peace movement.

Since 1992, he has been a member of Meretz
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
, a dovish left wing party which resulted from the merger of Mapam
Mapam

Mapam was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz-Yachad party....
, Ratz and Shinui
Shinui

Shinui was a Zionism, secular and Anti-clericalism free market Liberalism worldwide in Israel. The party twice become the third largest in the Knesset, but on both occasions it was followed by a split and collapse; in Israeli legislative election, 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for Change, but the alliance spl...
. He was Minister of Industry and Trade
Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel

The Industry, Trade and Labour Minister of Israel is the political head of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour and a position in the Cabinet of Israel....
 in Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
's government. He headed several Knesset committees, including the Security and Foreign Affairs committee.

Cohen is most identified with "Law of Public Housing", which allowed residents of houses supplied by the state to assume ownership on the house. He also managed to pass a law regulating minimum wages.

Cohen's political focus is on social-economic issues rather than foreign affairs
Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an United States journal on international relations published by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually. The CFR is a private-sector group established in New York City in 1921, with the mission of promoting understanding of foreign policy and America?s role in the world....
 and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

After Meretz merged with Yossi Beilin
Yossi Beilin

Dr. Yosef "Yossi" Beilin is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel and Justice Minister of Israel, representing both the Israeli Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006....
's Shachar movement and renamed itself Yachad
Meretz-Yachad

The New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, Social democracy List of political parties in Israel in Israel, which emphasizes the Israeli peace camp, human rights, religious freedom and green politics....
 in 2004, Ran Cohen ran for the chairmainship of the new party, but lost to Beilin. Supporters of Ran Cohen blamed his defeat on anti-Mizrahi racism
Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
 within the party and pointed out that he was the only non-Ashkenazi to reach a senior position within it.

On 1 November, 2008, following Beilin's resignation, he announced his intention to retire from political life and not to seek a spot on the party's roster ahead of the upcoming general elections
Israeli legislative election, 2009

Elections for the 18th Knesset were held in Israel on 10 February 2009. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government....
. He said "I want to start chapter three of my life, to do things for my soul: writing, lecturing, taking part in social and public initiatives that interest me".

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