Yinon Cohen, an Israeli sociologist, is the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi was the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University, a position he held from 1980 to 2008...

 Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Cohen holds the B.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the M.A and Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook.

He is known for his research on international migration, social stratification and labor markets. He has studies earnings assimilation of immigrants in Israel, Germany, and the United States, socioeconomic ethnic and gender gaps in Israel, Israeli income inequality in Israel, and the industrial relations in Israel.

Cohen’s appointment to the Yerushalmi chair was controversial because he has been a critic of Israeli policy and because the search committee two prominent critics of Israel
He is described by The Forward

The Forward

The Forward , commonly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York City. The publication began in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily issued by dissidents from the Socialist Labor Party of Daniel DeLeon...

as leaning "leftward on Israeli politics."