Ellie Cohanim Biography
Ellie is an American TV journalist who served as the US Department of State’s Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism during the reign of President Donald Trump.
Ellie Cohanim Age
Cohanim was given birth to on December 10th, 1972, in Tehran, Iran, she is 51 years old as of December 2023.
Ellie Cohanim Education
Cohanim got her B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College at Columbia University. She completed with degree in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Ellie Cohanim Family
Cohanim is daughter from a Jewish family that run away from the nation at the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in the year 1979 and sought refuge in the United States.
Ellie Cohanim Career
Before joining the US Department of State, she served as a Special Correspondent and Senior Vice President for Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS), and also an Executive at Yeshiva University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and UJA-Federation of New York. Cohanim has spoke against Iran’s government for what she refers to “obsessive anti-Semitism”. Cohanim chastised Twitter for its pretence in refusing to censor the Twitter account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who has published very many anti-Semitic tweets calling for the “genocidal” removal of the State of Israel, while censoring President Trump’s tweets. Cohanim further asked Twitter to completely do away with Khamenei from their platform.
She has attacked the terrorist-designated group Hezbollah, singling out their ties to Iran, and has openly declared that the United States congratulates countries that emulate in designating Hezbollah a terrorist organization and freezing their properties. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cohanim announced that emerging conspiracy theories apportioning blames on Jews for the worldwide outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus are a “modern-day blood libel,” and chastised Iranian, Turkish, and Palestinian Authority officials for escalating these theories.
Ellie Cohanim Net Worth
Ellie has a net worth estimated at 5 million dollars.