Dr. Edy Cohen: Israel’s Most Important and Least Known Social Media Influencer

Meet Israel’s unofficial Arabic language spokesperson. The government, it seems, has left the room.

Dr. Edy Cohen has more than 550,000 followers on Twitter and I’m pretty sure that you’ve never heard of him.

Beirut-born, Cohen left Lebanon at age 18. He has since made Israel his home and lives with his family in a quiet town south of Tel Aviv. In his “down-time” from teaching and consulting, he’s a one-man, tireless presence on Arabic-language Twitter…