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of the Old City branch of Porat Yosef
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community in Israel. In 2014, he decried the dire effects on
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Labin, Yoel Asher. "'There Is So Much Torah Here!': My conversation with Rav Shalom Cohen and Rav David Yosef".
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before immigrating to
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rabbinic council. In April 2014, six months after Yosef's death, Cohen succeeded him as
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Cohen entered the political arena for the first time in 1984, when he agreed to Rabbi
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at Porat Yosef after his wedding, and taught students for decades. He was named
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kabbalist who also taught at Porat Yosef. The couple had eight children.
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He also expressed hard-line views on issues affecting the
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Cohen was on the board of Beis Din Tzedek Neveh Tzion, a
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and secular Jews in Israel. In 2013, he compared the
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334:Cohen was an outspoken critic of
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255:Early life and education
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630:. 22 February 2015.
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