Cohen Menachem (b.1931, Riga) - architect.

Menachem Cohen was born into a family of biologists. In 1938, his family moved to Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. He graduated from the Herzliya Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. In 1948, he joined the Haganah and then the Israel Defence Forces. During his military service, he worked as a draughtsman. After completing his service, he enrolled at the Technion in Haifa, graduating in 1954. He then joined Nahum Zalkind's architectural studio. In his first year of work, he submitted a design for the Hebrew Language Academy building at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to an architectural competition, which took 5th place out of 80 and received an acquisition prize. He submitted designs for the Knesset building in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv City Hall building to competitions, which took 1st place. He moved to the studio of architect Itzhak Perelstein, where he made his first sketches of the layout of Ashdod. In 1956-64, he worked on the Tel Aviv municipal building. In 1968-74, he was a guest lecturer at the Technion (Haifa). He continued to design and build public buildings and residential houses. Among his well-known buildings are a high-rise residential building on the seafront in Bat Yam (1963), a shopping centre in Arad (1966-88), the Oron cinema in Arad (1978), a residential building in Tel Aviv on Nahum Street, 16 (1982-85), the Bezeq telephone company building in Ashkelon (1986-89), and others.

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