Ellie Cohanim Biography
Ellie Cohanim is an American television journalist who worked as the US Department of State’s Deputy Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism under President Donald Trump.
Ellie Cohanim Age
Cohanim was born December 10, 1972, in Tehran, Iran, she is 51 years old as of December 2023.
Ellie Cohanim Education
Cohanim received her B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College at Columbia University. She earned a graduate degree in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Ellie Cohanim Family
Cohanim was born in Tehran, Iran, to a Jewish family that fled the nation at the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and sought sanctuary in the United States.
Ellie Cohanim Career
Prior to joining the US Department of State, she worked as a Special Correspondent and Senior Vice President for Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS), as well as an Executive at Yeshiva University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and UJA-Federation of New York. Cohanim has condemned Iran’s government for what she calls its “obsessive anti-Semitism”. Cohanim chastised Twitter for its hypocrisy in refusing to censor the Twitter account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who has published countless anti-Semitic tweets calling for the “genocidal” elimination of the State of Israel, while censoring President Trump’s tweets. Cohanim went on to ask Twitter to completely ban Khamenei from their platform.
Cohanim has attacked the terrorist-designated group Hezbollah, noting their ties to Iran, and has publicly declared that the US applauds countries that follow suit in designating Hezbollah a terrorist organization and freezing their assets. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cohanim declared that emerging conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the global outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus are a “modern-day blood libel,” and chastised Iranian, Turkish, and Palestinian Authority officials for spreading these theories.
Ellie Cohanim Net Worth
Ellie has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.