[1] Miki Cohen is a mechanical engineer, who made his career in the Ministry of Agriculture, became the CEO of Israel Shipyards, and founded the Palmach Museum.

[6] Cohen moved to the United States to continue her education, receiving her MA in communications with distinction from the New York Institute of Technology in 1985.

[6] In 1978, Cohen was working as a flight attendant for El Al, when she was injured in a terrorist attack in London, carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

[8] 20 years later, she made a film about her journey of reconciliation with the man who shot her; My Terrorist became her most noted work, and won multiple awards.

Her first job was as a production assistance and a driver, and then she moved on to script supervising, working on an independent feature, The Light in The Afternoon (1985), directed by Paul Williams and starring Karen Black.

Cohen taught a filmmaking course at WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education (1988–1991), and worked as an assistant director on Avraham Heffner's film, Ma Kara?

The first work she created was called Einayim Sheli (My Eyes), a series of short, 5-minute documentary films about children's hobbies from around Israel for the Second Authority for Television and Radio.

In 1995, Cohen joined a group of journalists, including Rafi Reshef and Raudor Benziman, who submitted a bid for Radio Tel Aviv (102FM), and won.

[15] The film is about a Palestinian expatriate in the Netherlands, who was detained by Israeli security forces after being accused of membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and then deported.

[16] The film describes how Cohen started out as an avid patriot who wanted to become an officer during her military service, and became, after the shooting, an anxious mother who was afraid to let her daughters out by themselves, lest they become victims of a suicide terrorist attack.

The film shows her efforts to secure Mihyi's release from prison as a political act, and her goal to stand up as a survivor and call for reconciliation on both sides.

[19] The film depicts Cohen's personal journey across Israel, through three generations of two families: Her parents, from the Palmach generation,[3][2] and her daughters; Shula Golani, a Holocaust survivor, and her historian son, Motti Golani; and Ruti Gilis, who lives in the illegal settlement Karmei Tsur.

Until 2013, she was the film-direction instructor in a multi-disciplinary documentary course at Bezalel, together with anthropologist Yona Weitz and cinematographer Micki Kratsman.

During this period, she led two upper-level courses at the Haifa Academy of the Arts: A directing workshop and a project development class.

As of 2018, She is the practicum instructor in Yona Weitz's pro-seminar "Me-story" at Bezalel, and also in 2018, began teaching the course "Personal Documentation" in the M.Des.