page_title: Geulah Cohen
section_title: Life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Geulah Cohen / Life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Geula Cohen announcer of the Lehi underground radio station.
context_page_description: Geulah Cohen was an Israeli politician and activist who founded the Tehiya party. She won the Israel Prize in 2003. Between 1974 and 1992, she served as a member of Knesset, initially for Likud. She changed her political affiliation to Tehiya in 1979. In 1992, she lost her seat in the Knesset.
context_section_description: Geulah Cohen was born in Tel Aviv to a Mizrahi Jewish family (from Yemen, Morocco, and Turkey) during the Mandate era. She was the daughter of Miriam and Yosef Cohen. She studied at the Levinsky Teachers Seminary, and earned a master's degree in Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Literature and Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  In 1942 she joined the Irgun, and moved to Stern gang (Lehi) the following year. A radio announcer for the group, she was arrested by the British military authorities in 1946  while broadcasting in Tel Aviv. She escaped in May, shortly before her trial, but was recaptured by a group of Arabs. On 6 June 1946, she was sentenced to seven years imprisonment (nineteen years according to Encyclopaedia Judaica) after being charged with being in possession of a wireless transmitter, four pistols and revolvers and ammunition. During sentencing she sang "Hatikvah" and was accompanied by 30 members of her family. She was imprisoned in Bethlehem, but escaped from jail in 1947. She was also editor of  the Lehi newspaper Youth Front. After Israeli independence in 1948, she contributed to Sulam, a monthly magazine published by former Lehi leader Israel Eldad.
  Cohen married former Lehi comrade Emanuel Hanegbi. From 1961 to 1973, she wrote for the Israeli newspaper Maariv and served on its editorial board. While working as a journalist, she came to New York to visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Schneerson encouraged her to get involved with Israeli youth.
  Cohen died on 18 December 2019, one week before her 94th birthday.
caption: Cohen as a radio broadcaster for the Stern Group underground station in 1948
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