Michal HaCohen

In the winter of 1884, he, his parents and three sisters started their journey by sailing ship to immigrate to the Land of Israel.

Prior to leaving, his father Rabbi Eliezer made efforts to learn a craft from which he wanted to earn a living.

After nine months they arrived in Jerusalem, where his father rented a shop on Yehudi Street in the Old City and began work repairing shoes.

[1] Towards the end of his stay in Europe, while in Germany, HaCohen and his friend Yoel Moshe Salomon decided to study the printing trade in Königsberg in Prussia.

[4] On 20 February 1863 the partners founded there, along with Yehiel Bril [he], HaLevanon, the first Hebrew language newspaper printed in Palestine.

After a plague broke out in Alexandria, HaCohen returned to Israel and sold his share in the printing house to his partner Yoel Moshe Salomon.

Starting in 1893, together with his son-in-law, Haim Michal Michalin [ חיים מיכל מִיכלִין] he engaged in fundraising for the Misgav Ladach Hospital.