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Dr. Edy Cohen

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Dr. Edy Cohen (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University) Specializes in inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, terrorism, Jewish communities in the Arab world. Dr. Edy Cohen grew up in Lebanon and served for 15 years in the Israeli intelligence community. He is a researcher at the BESA Center and is the author of The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas (Hebrew). He also authored the book "The Mufti and the Jews," a book about the anti-Jewish activities of Haj Amin al-Husseini in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Germany and his cooperation with the Nazi government in the extermination of European Jews, 2021.