Shalom Cohen (Hebrew: שלום כהן; 3 November 1930 – 22 August 2022) was an Israeli Haredi Sephardi rabbi.

[1][3] Born on 3 November 1930,[2] Shalom Cohen was one of eight children of Rabbi Efraim Hakohen, a Sephardi kabbalist, in Jerusalem who had been a disciple of Yosef Hayyim in Baghdad before immigrating to Palestine in 1924.

[2] He married Yael, the daughter of Rabbi Mansour Ben Shimon, a Safed kabbalist who also taught at Porat Yosef.

[1] Cohen entered the political arena for the first time in 1984, when he agreed to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's request to support the founding of the Shas party and serve on the new Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah rabbinic council.

[2] In 2013, he compared the Religious Zionist community to Amalek, the biblical archenemy of the Jewish people,[5][6] and in 2015, he called the Israeli national anthem, "Hatikvah", "a stupid song".