Nili Cohen


Nili Cohen is an Israeli professor and legal expert. She is a recipient of the Israel Prize, and is the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, succeeding Prof. Ruth Arnon, Cohen's role model.

Biography

Nili Cohen was born in Kfar Saba, 1947. She grew up and was educated in Tel Aviv, graduating from graduated from Ironi Dalet High School. Her father was a teacher in that city. Cohen's grandmother, Batsheva Friedberg Grabelsky, lived in Manhattan, and married a Belarus immigrant, Boris Grabelsky. Bertha was an editor, translator, Hebraist, and Zionist, who, in the 1920s, published Eden, a newspaper for Jewish teenagers.
An alumnus of Tel Aviv University, where Cohen received her LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D. degrees, she was the co-founding editor of the TAU Law Review. In 1998, Cohen received an Honorary Degree from the University of Buenos Aires.
She serves as the Benno Gitter Chair in Comparative Contract Law and is the director of the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Fund for Human Rights in Private Law. From 1994 to 1997, she was the Vice-Rector of TAU, and served as the Rector from 1997 till 2001. She is the Professor emeritus of TAU's Buchmann Faculty of Law. Cohen became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2004, and was elected its president in 2015.
Cohen is a widow; her husband, Amiram Cohen, had been a lawyer. They have two daughters and one son.

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