Zamir cohen biography

Rabbi Zamir Cohen, founder of the Hidabroot Organization, is probably the most popular media rabbi in Israel today. The Hidabroot Torah website – in Hebrew and English – receives some three million hits per month, and Hidabroot TV can be found in every home with cable television.

His coffee-table-size books are bestsellers in secular and religious bookstores alike.

Rabbi Zamir Cohen, founder of the Hidabroot Organization, is probably the most popular media rabbi in Israel today.

Rabbi Zamir Cohen, founder of the Hidabroot Organization, is probably the most popular media rabbi in Israel today.

Zamir Cohen.

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Rabbi Zamir Cohen, (born in Jerusalem) is the chairman of Hidabroot organization and the producer of the first Jewish television channel in Israel.

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A project is underway to translate 20 of Rabbi Cohen’s books into English, and two are already available on Amazon, The Coming Revolution (about Torah and science) and Hidden Treasures (about Torah and archaeology).

The Jewish Press: Why did you decide to focus on kiruv of the masses, via seminars, books, the Hidabroot website and TV, rather than become a Rosh Yeshiva?

Rabbi Cohen: I grew up in a charedi neighborhood near Mea Shaarim in Jerusalem and learned in Yeshivat Porat Yosef.

All I knew was the world of Torah. Because my wife’s family lives not far from Tel Aviv, I became acquainted w