Yehoshua Cohen | |
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Native name | יהושע כהן |
Born | Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine (present-day Israel) | June 22, 1922
Died | August 8, 1986 Sde Boker, Israel | (aged 64)
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Yehoshua Cohen (Hebrew: יהושע כהן; June 22, 1922 – August 8, 1986) was a leading member of Lehi, a Zionist militant group, who assassinated United Nations envoys Folke Bernadotte and André Sérot on September 17, 1948. Cohen was never charged for his role in the assassination, and was one of the founders of the Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev Desert, where David Ben-Gurion later lived. While Ben-Gurion lived at Sde Boker, he and Cohen became close friends.