Almog Cohen (politician)

Almog Cohen (Hebrew: אלמוג כהן) is a "Knesset ethics panel reprimands". Times of Israel. Retrieved 27 March 2023.Israeli politician and former police officer, currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Otzma Yehudit, as well as the party's regional coordinator.[1]

Almog Cohen
אלמוג כהן‎
Cohen in 2022
Faction represented in the Knesset
2022-Otzma Yehudit
Personal details
Born1987

Biography

Cohen is the leader of the Negev Rescue Committee,[2] which planned to establish the "Barel Rangers", a civilian armed militia force in the Negev, in which nearly 200 recruits had been enlisted. However, in response to public backlash, the police withdrew their endorsement of its registration for the status of "police volunteers", causing the Beersheba municipality to order the cession of the establishment of the militia.[3][4]

He was placed as the seventh mandate under a merger deal between Otzma Yehudit, and the Religious Zionist Party, ahead of the 2022 Israeli legislative elections.[5] He became an MK after the election.[6]

In January 2023, Twitter suspended Cohen's account following a tweet in which he expressed support for the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces during a raid in Jenin that resulted in the deaths of nine Palestinians. Cohen's tweet read, "Good and professional work by the fighters in Jenin, keep killing them." He criticized Twitter's decision, calling it "the worst kind of censorship" and defended his statement, claiming that his intention was clearly to target "terrorists involved and not bystanders".[7]

References
  1. Breuer, Eliav (2 August 2022). "Smotrich, Ben-Gvir close to merger agreement". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  2. Israel, David (18 March 2022). "Police Nix Armed Militia Fighting Crime in Southern Israel, 'Negev Rescue Committee' Vows to Stay". Jewish Press. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  3. Yefet, Nati (17 March 2022). "With Police Backing, Activist Sets Up Armed Group 'To Save' Israel's Negev". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  4. "Activist sets up armed militia 'to save' Israel's Negev". I24news. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  5. הציונות הדתית בראשות בצלאל סמוטריץ ועוצמה יהודית בראשות איתמר בן גביר [Religious Zionism led by Bezalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit led by Itamar Ben Gvir] (in Hebrew). Government of Israel. 15 September 2022.
  6. Michael Bachner; Staff writer (15 November 2022). "As 25th Knesset sworn in, president urges MKs to end 'addiction' to toxic discourse". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  7. "After IDF raid, suspended from Twitter for call to 'keep killing them'". The Times of Israel. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
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