Dr. Mike Cohen, a veteran political and security analyst, strategist
and commentator, is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and the Galilee
Institute's Founder and Senior Analyst and is on the visiting faculty
of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's Ohr Torah Stone Center for Jewish-
Christian Understanding & Cooperation.
Dr. Cohen 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,
Dr. Cohen 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, Dr. Cohen
was assigned 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."
In this capacity, Dr. Cohen was invited to testify before and share
his analysis and experience with the 9/11 Commission in
Washington, DC.
A former executive at the National Basketball Association, the
American Sportscaster’s Association, Yad Vashem, Israel’s
National Holocaust Memorial & Museum, Yeshiva University, the
Orthodox Union and the Israel Ministry of Tourism, Dr. Cohen 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
Mizrachi and Likud movements.
Dr. Cohen 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.
Dr. Cohen is currently working on two new titles: "Where There Is
No Vision, People Die,” (Proverbs 29:18) and "Before Oslo There
Was Peace". The Hebron File, an historical novel published by the
Galilee Institute which garnered rave reviews is now available in
Hebrew and English. Dr. Cohen is the host of "The Book Nook"
radio program on Israel National Radio and has recently
(December 2009) completed the editing of Dr. Joseph Mazur's
(Hebrew University) Arab-Israeli Reader: A Post-Zionist Anthology
which will be published in early 2010 by Gefen Publishing House
(http://www,gefenpublishing.com) in Jerusalem. Dr. Mazur is a
senior scholar 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
and commentator, is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and the Galilee
Institute's Founder and Senior Analyst and is on the visiting faculty
of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's Ohr Torah Stone Center for Jewish-
Christian Understanding & Cooperation.
Dr. Cohen 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,
Dr. Cohen 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, Dr. Cohen
was assigned 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."
In this capacity, Dr. Cohen was invited to testify before and share
his analysis and experience with the 9/11 Commission in
Washington, DC.
A former executive at the National Basketball Association, the
American Sportscaster’s Association, Yad Vashem, Israel’s
National Holocaust Memorial & Museum, Yeshiva University, the
Orthodox Union and the Israel Ministry of Tourism, Dr. Cohen 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
Mizrachi and Likud movements.
Dr. Cohen 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.
Dr. Cohen is currently working on two new titles: "Where There Is
No Vision, People Die,” (Proverbs 29:18) and "Before Oslo There
Was Peace". The Hebron File, an historical novel published by the
Galilee Institute which garnered rave reviews is now available in
Hebrew and English. Dr. Cohen is the host of "The Book Nook"
radio program on Israel National Radio and has recently
(December 2009) completed the editing of Dr. Joseph Mazur's
(Hebrew University) Arab-Israeli Reader: A Post-Zionist Anthology
which will be published in early 2010 by Gefen Publishing House
(http://www,gefenpublishing.com) in Jerusalem. Dr. Mazur is a
senior scholar 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 |
| Contact Mike: mike@gogalil.com |
