Eli Cohen

Israeli agriculture at risk ahead of High Holy Days as desalination systems remain nonfunctional

The Water Authority and the Energy and Infrastructure Ministry said Tuesday morning that after the facilities operated overnight, most were shut down again after seawater turbidity rose.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Infrastructure works along the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee as the Water Authority and the national water company Mekorot prepare to increase the flow of desalinated water pumped from desalination plants in Ashkelon and Rishon Lezion into the lake, northern Israel, February 27, 2026.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026.

Netanyahu won the Likud primary. Can Likud win beyond its base? - opinion

Likud is walking out of this primary further to the Right, unmistakably built around Netanyahu, security-minded to its core, still ready to sit with the ultra-Orthodox parties.

|ByDOV MAIMON
Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen.

Energy minister touts oil pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz

Israel already has existing infrastructure with a pipeline between Eilat and Ashkelon, but infrastructure would be needed to connect Arab countries if they were willing.

|ByREUTERS
Incoming Mossad director Roman Gofman arrives to a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 5, 2026

Editor's Notes: The Mossad has always been led by outsiders - comment

The Roman Gofman fight is about more than the Mossad. It is about who Israel's security elite is willing to let inside.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Israeli-Arab peace incomplete without Palestinian talks - Macron

The two men met just after Chad, an African country with a Muslim population, opened an embassy in Ramat Gan.

FEBRUARY 3, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives for a dinner at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, February 2, 2023.

Blinken hints broad consensus needed for Israel's judicial overhaul

Israelis and Palestinians must take “urgent steps to restore calm,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

JANUARY 30, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a joint press conference, on January 30, 2023

Letters to the Editor January 9, 2023: Outlived its usefulness

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

JANUARY 9, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen should meet with J Street Israel CEO - opinion

A meeting with Nadav Tamir, executive director of J Street Israel, would be an important test of the seriousness of Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s efforts.

JANUARY 4, 2023ByAVI GIL
FOREIGN MINISTER Eli Cohen attends a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on Monday, at which he is welcomed as the new minister.

Russia reaches out to new Israeli foreign minister

Eli Cohen's statement that Israel Israel should talk less about the Russia-Ukrainian war was interpreted to mean that he would move closer to Moscow and be less critical.

JANUARY 3, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.

Israeli spy Eli Cohen's daughter asks UAE for help to return father's body

Cohen was executed in Syria in 1965 on espionage charges, and his body was not returned to Israel and his family.

DECEMBER 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Reproduction of an Israeli stamp being issued to honor Mossad intelligence agency spy Eli Cohen

Herzog becomes an honorary citizen of Herzliya

Herzog said that he felt like a citizen of Herzliya, a city that is blessed because it bears the name of Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl.

DECEMBER 12, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, November 23, 2022.

Mossad reveals how spy Eli Cohen was caught by Syria

Mossad head Barnea: His last message about Syrian high command intercepted

DECEMBER 12, 2022ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Israeli master spy Eli Cohen in Syria, wearing a watch recovered by the Mossad

The Pereh-fect Golan Heights luxury getaway

After watching the gruesome hanging of master-spy Eli Cohen, Leo Gleser from Argentina had dedicated himself to Israel, making aliyah two years later.

OCTOBER 2, 2022ByPAMELA PELED
THE PEREH Hotel in Golan Heights – 28 dunams of peace and tranquility.

Shin Bet should resume COVID surveillance if daily cases top 1,000 - Cohen

EXCLUSIVE: Israel's former intelligence minister Eli Cohen weighs in on the current heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet.

JUNE 23, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Eli Cohen