Eli­az Cohen is a poet, edi­tor, and peace activist. Born in 1972 to a plu­ral­is­tic reli­gious fam­i­ly, he was named after his uncle, Eliez­er Feld­man, who was killed in the Sinai Cam­paign of 1956.

In 1979 the fam­i­ly moved to Elka­na in Samaria, where Eli­az grew up. The fact of his being part of a bereaved fam­i­ly and his nei­j­bor­ing to Pales­tin­ian vil­lages influ­enced his world and finds expres­sion in his work. 

Cohen stud­ied in the Bnei-Aki­va Yeshiv­ot, and served in the armored divi­sion of the army.

In 1994 he began to pub­lish his writ­ings in var­i­ous mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers, start­ing with prose writ­ings which were fol­lowed by poetry.

He is an edi­tor of the Mashiv Haru’ach jour­nal of poet­ry, and author of six pub­lished col­lec­tions of poet­ry. In addi­tion, a bilin­gual edi­tion (Hebrew-Eng­lish) of his poet­ry was pub­lished in 2010 by Toby Press, and a col­lec­tion from his poet­ry trans­lat­ed to French by Lev­ant pub­lish­ing house.

Cohen was the recip­i­ent of the Prime Min­is­ter Award for lit­er­a­ture in 2006 and 2023.

In recent years he has stood out as a social activist deal­ing with such issues as reli­gion and state, nar­row­ing socioe­co­nom­ic gaps, and the sanc­ti­ty of life. Dur­ing 2009 he was one of founders of Yerushalom, a move­ment for dia­logue and peace between Palas­tini­ans and Israeli Set­tlers, thet led to the found­ing of Roots cen­ter in 2014. anoth­er ini­tia­tives that Cohen is lead­ing are Light Tag-against the Jew­ish van­dal­ism and hate attacks that under the name Price Tag, and the new peace ini­tia­tive ​“A land for all — 2 States, 1 Homeland.”