Eli Cohen

Netanyahu won the Likud primary. Can Likud win beyond its base? - opinion

Likud is walking out of this primary further to the Right, unmistakably built around Netanyahu, security-minded to its core, still ready to sit with the ultra-Orthodox parties.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, March 19, 2026.
Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen.

Energy minister touts oil pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz

Incoming Mossad director Roman Gofman arrives to a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 5, 2026

Editor's Notes: The Mossad has always been led by outsiders - comment

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ministers at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2025.

Likud members still support Netanyahu, hold reservations on his policies - poll


Kamala-Cohen spat is overblown but indicates bigger US-Israel issues - analysis

The disagreement over judicial reform is reverberating in other aspects of the US-Israel relationship.

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a Veterans Day event at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia, US, November 11, 2022.

Grapevine June 2, 2023: All that jazz

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FROM RIGHT: Prof. Uriel Reichman, Prof. Yifat Bitton, Prof. Ami Moyal, Nina Avidar Weiner and Prof. Nir Kedar

Lipstadt on Musk uproar: Antisemites use George Soros against Jews

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen: "Soros is not someone who needs the protection of the State of Israel."

 US SPECIAL Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at a news conference during a meeting of envoys and coordinators on countering antisemitism, in Berlin, earlier this year.

Israel's Eli Cohen aims to make more diplomatic breakthroughs than ever

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is working like a man in a hurry, visiting Kyiv, advancing normalization with Sudan and trying to strengthen ties with Europe.

FOREIGN MINISTER Eli Cohen: We are the only Middle Eastern country to send a foreign minister to Kyiv. That means something.

Cementing ties with Iran’s neighbors - opinion

Despite the differences between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Israel has always understood the political importance of maintaining close relations with both.

 FOREIGN MINISTER Eli Cohen meets with Turkmenistan President Serdar Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat, last month.

Israelis may have visa-free travel to US by end of year - Cohen

Eli Cohen: "After we finish all the necessary legislative procedures, I estimate that Israeli citizens will be able to visit the US without the need for a visa by the end of the year."

 Will Israelis soon be able to travel to the US visa free? (Illustrative image of Israeli and American passports)

EU promises funding won’t go to PA textbooks inciting against Israel

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi as his first stop in Brussels on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, May 2, 2023.

Cohen to meet Borrell in Brussels on Iran, Israel-EU tensions

Israel in particular wants the IAEA’s board to vote in June to ask the UN Security Council to reinstate crippling sanctions against Iran.

 Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is seen at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2023.

Number of diplomatic missions in Israel on the rise

Herzog urged the heads of diplomatic missions to join Israel in making the Middle East “a better, safer, kinder place.”

 President Isaac Herzog with foreign diplomats on Independence Day, April 26, 2023

Israel opens first embassy in Turkmenistan, only 17 km. from Iran’s border

Cohen's Turkmen counterpart called the embassy’s opening “historic” and underlined the importance of political and diplomatic interactions with Israel.

 Foreign Minister Eli Cohen inaugurates Israel's new embassy in Turkmenistan, located only 17 km. from the Iranian border, on April 20, 2023