Claim: Before being a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party and Liberal Party between 1949 and 1963, Idov Cohen (born on 1909 in Botoșani County, Romania) was a Romanian-Israeli politician who worked as a bookkeeper and as a journalist.
Evidence: Born in Mihăileni, Botoșani County, Romania in 1909, Cohen was educated at a yeshiva. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party and Liberal Party between 1949 and 1963. Between 1927 and 1933 he worked as a bookkeeper, before being appointed General Secretary of the Jewish National Fund in the country, a job he held until 1939. He also worked as a journalist, and was a member of the editorial board of Our Rebirth between 1933 and 1939, the editor of Romanian Zionist Weekly from 1933 until 1943, Illustrated Zionist Weekly (1933–1937), as well as publishing Adam, a monthly Jewish literary magazine (1937–1939). Idov Cohen (Hebrew: אידוב כהן‎, 4 November 1909 – 16 May 1998) was a Romanian-Israeli politician and journalist.