Mike Cohen, a veteran political and security strategist, is a lecturer
at Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Institute's Founder and Senior
Analyst. He sits on the visiting faculty of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's Ohr
Torah Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding &
Cooperation, and is closely affiliated with the Eretz Hemdah
Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies the Ariel University Center in
Samaria and Texans for Israel.
As of July 2010, he is an honorary member of the United Chaplains
of New York State.and is currently traveling throughout the United
States speaking on behalf of Israel as he works on a book
highlighting Christian Zionist contributions to the formation and
building of the modern State of Israel.
Mike wears several professional hats in philanthropy, education,
business, entrepreneurship, finance and counter-terrorism. He
serves as the CEO of Israel POC (Point of Contact), a consulting
firm that provides services to business and organizations
interested in the USA-Israel nexus.
A 26-year veteran IDF reserve officer in an elite special-forces unit,
Mike has been active in Israeli, American and Israel-Diaspora
politics and business in a wide variety of behind-the-scenes
capacities since his teen years and has served in a range of
advisory positions under five Israeli Prime Ministers dating back to
the late Menachem Begin, of blessed memory.
He has traveled extensively throughout the world, visiting with
thousands of friends of Israel, speaking to them about Israel from
his unique security-military-community perspective and
encouraging them to come, visit and invest.
During Operation Defensive Shield in April/May 2002, Mike was
assigned as an IDF reservist to the National Emergency Response
& Negotiation Team in Bethlehem that was tasked with handling
the multifaceted and potentially explosive crisis surrounding the
Church of the Nativity's abduction by terrorists.
Since that time he has been working with the IDF and the Israel
Police assisting their efforts to depoliticize the nation's security
decisions and concerns, comprehensively briefing visiting
diplomats, politicians, dignitaries, security experts and communal
missions and trying to help redefine the electronic information
distribution systems the official security services use to "get the
word out."
A former executive at the National Basketball Association, the
American Sportscaster’s Association, the National Pro-Am City
Leagues, Yad Vashem, Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial &
Museum, Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Union and the Israel
Ministry of Tourism, Mike is an oft-requested scholar-in-residence,
lecturer and strategist on issues regarding Middle East security,
the Military Aspects of International Conflict and Peace Making,
Israel-Diaspora relations, Israeli Society and Body Politic,
Homeland Security, Conflict Resolution, and the use of technology
for community development. He is active as a key advisor to many
Jewish, Israeli, American, multi-cultural organizations and NGO’s,
and has served as a delegate to the World Zionist Organization
representing both the Religious-Zionist Mizrachi and Secular-
Zionist Likud movements.
Mike served as Executive Director of Likud/Herut North America and
its representative to the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations under the government of Yitzchak
Shamir. In that capacity Mike conceptualized, developed & directed
a United States-based extra-governmental National Media
Response Team, a 2,500 student strong volunteer force designed
to help support Israel’s official diplomatic efforts during Gulf War I
and the Madrid Peace Conference.
He has worked with the entire gamut of news networks,electronic
and print, has been called to consult on a range of topics for
members of both houses of the United States Congress and in the
Israeli Knesset and has addressed the entire alphabet soup of
Jewish and Christian organizational life.
In 2002 Mike compiled "Ordinary People - Extraordinary Spirit" a
220-page photo essay that illustrated the amazing spirit shown by
Israeli, Jewish and Christian Zionist society in the face of the
ongoing campaign of global and domestic terror and "The Job of A
Jewish Soldier" a children's book designed to help Jewish parents
worldwide explain the images their children are seeing on TV in a
gentler and more positive manner.
The Hebron File, an historical novel published by the Galilee
Institute which garnered rave reviews is now available in Hebrew
and English.
Mike is currently working on "Where There Is No Vision, People
Die,” (Proverbs 29:18). He has recently completed the editing of Dr.
Joseph Mazur's new book Zionism, Post-Zionism and the Arab
Problem: An Anthology of Opinions and Ideas which will be
published in Hebrew (Summer 2010) and English (Winter 2010) by
Gefen Publishing House in Jerusalem. Dr. Mazur, 94, is a senior
scholar emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
To book Mike for your community, school, church, synagogue,
Israel Program or tour, please contact him at mike@gogalil.com
at Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Institute's Founder and Senior
Analyst. He sits on the visiting faculty of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's Ohr
Torah Stone Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding &
Cooperation, and is closely affiliated with the Eretz Hemdah
Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies the Ariel University Center in
Samaria and Texans for Israel.
As of July 2010, he is an honorary member of the United Chaplains
of New York State.and is currently traveling throughout the United
States speaking on behalf of Israel as he works on a book
highlighting Christian Zionist contributions to the formation and
building of the modern State of Israel.
Mike wears several professional hats in philanthropy, education,
business, entrepreneurship, finance and counter-terrorism. He
serves as the CEO of Israel POC (Point of Contact), a consulting
firm that provides services to business and organizations
interested in the USA-Israel nexus.
A 26-year veteran IDF reserve officer in an elite special-forces unit,
Mike has been active in Israeli, American and Israel-Diaspora
politics and business in a wide variety of behind-the-scenes
capacities since his teen years and has served in a range of
advisory positions under five Israeli Prime Ministers dating back to
the late Menachem Begin, of blessed memory.
He has traveled extensively throughout the world, visiting with
thousands of friends of Israel, speaking to them about Israel from
his unique security-military-community perspective and
encouraging them to come, visit and invest.
During Operation Defensive Shield in April/May 2002, Mike was
assigned as an IDF reservist to the National Emergency Response
& Negotiation Team in Bethlehem that was tasked with handling
the multifaceted and potentially explosive crisis surrounding the
Church of the Nativity's abduction by terrorists.
Since that time he has been working with the IDF and the Israel
Police assisting their efforts to depoliticize the nation's security
decisions and concerns, comprehensively briefing visiting
diplomats, politicians, dignitaries, security experts and communal
missions and trying to help redefine the electronic information
distribution systems the official security services use to "get the
word out."
A former executive at the National Basketball Association, the
American Sportscaster’s Association, the National Pro-Am City
Leagues, Yad Vashem, Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial &
Museum, Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Union and the Israel
Ministry of Tourism, Mike is an oft-requested scholar-in-residence,
lecturer and strategist on issues regarding Middle East security,
the Military Aspects of International Conflict and Peace Making,
Israel-Diaspora relations, Israeli Society and Body Politic,
Homeland Security, Conflict Resolution, and the use of technology
for community development. He is active as a key advisor to many
Jewish, Israeli, American, multi-cultural organizations and NGO’s,
and has served as a delegate to the World Zionist Organization
representing both the Religious-Zionist Mizrachi and Secular-
Zionist Likud movements.
Mike served as Executive Director of Likud/Herut North America and
its representative to the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations under the government of Yitzchak
Shamir. In that capacity Mike conceptualized, developed & directed
a United States-based extra-governmental National Media
Response Team, a 2,500 student strong volunteer force designed
to help support Israel’s official diplomatic efforts during Gulf War I
and the Madrid Peace Conference.
He has worked with the entire gamut of news networks,electronic
and print, has been called to consult on a range of topics for
members of both houses of the United States Congress and in the
Israeli Knesset and has addressed the entire alphabet soup of
Jewish and Christian organizational life.
In 2002 Mike compiled "Ordinary People - Extraordinary Spirit" a
220-page photo essay that illustrated the amazing spirit shown by
Israeli, Jewish and Christian Zionist society in the face of the
ongoing campaign of global and domestic terror and "The Job of A
Jewish Soldier" a children's book designed to help Jewish parents
worldwide explain the images their children are seeing on TV in a
gentler and more positive manner.
The Hebron File, an historical novel published by the Galilee
Institute which garnered rave reviews is now available in Hebrew
and English.
Mike is currently working on "Where There Is No Vision, People
Die,” (Proverbs 29:18). He has recently completed the editing of Dr.
Joseph Mazur's new book Zionism, Post-Zionism and the Arab
Problem: An Anthology of Opinions and Ideas which will be
published in Hebrew (Summer 2010) and English (Winter 2010) by
Gefen Publishing House in Jerusalem. Dr. Mazur, 94, is a senior
scholar emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
To book Mike for your community, school, church, synagogue,
Israel Program or tour, please contact him at mike@gogalil.com
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| The Galilee Institute |
Established in 2000, the
Galilee Institute promotes
creative and innovative
answers in this time of
crisis and struggle inside
the Jewish People and
the Zionist movement.
Galilee Institute promotes
creative and innovative
answers in this time of
crisis and struggle inside
the Jewish People and
the Zionist movement.
| Winner of 2008 Minister of Defense Award for IDF Reserve Support |
| Mike: mike@gogalil.com |
