Rabbi Michael Cohen was a founding faculty member of The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies ,
a premier environmental teaching and research program in the Middle East preparing future Arab and
Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the regions environmental challenges. In 2009 he co-founded the
Arava Power Company, which has been featured on CNN and partnered with Siemens Energy. The
Arava Power Company is working to make Solar Power the main energy source for southern Israel and
the region.
He is the author of numerous articles on the environment and the Middle East peace process that can
be found in Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Report, The Palestine Times, the Israel-Palestine
Journal, The Jordan Times, the Rutland Herald, the Christian Science Monitor, the Arab News, Todays
Zaman, and the Huffington Post.