Aharon Cohen (Hebrew: אהרון כהן; 1910–1980) was a senior member of Mapam, a pro-USSR Israeli political party which existed during the first two decades of statehood.
Born in Briceni (formally, Britchany), Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (later Romania, nowaydays Moldova).
He returned to Palestine in 1936 where a year later he was elected to the executive committee of Ha-kibbutz Ha'artzi and was involved in organizing political work in Haifa and illegal Jewish immigration.
He claims that these initiatives failed to make progress due to the refusal of the Jewish Agency to commit to any definite proposals.
"[4] Notes made by Cohen at meetings of the Mapam Political Committee were used by historian Benny Morris as a primary source for accounts of atrocities committed by the IDF in the autumn of 1948.