Tomer Cohen: The LinkedIn tech executive who embodies the Israeli dream

At age 10, LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen was already writing computer programs in BASIC, a programming language created in the 1960s and still popular in the 1980s. Born and raised in the city of Beer Sheba, Cohen represents the embodiment of the Israeli dream: his parents immigrated to the country from Tunisia, endured the hardship of the ma’abarot (transit camps) and started working at a very young age to support their families in their new life. Yet, as Cohen told the Israeli daily Haaretz in 2020, the example they set and their love for education were crucial to inspire him to pursue his goals.”I dreamed of being a tech entrepreneur from a very young age, and as a boy I was always looking to create and to build solutions for people’s needs,” he recalled. “As I grew older, I realized that technological revolutions are an inseparable part of social and cultural evolutions.”‘A community of professionals’Fast forward some 30 years, in June 2020, the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Cohen was appointed to his current position at LinkedIn, making him was of the most senior Israeli tech executives in the Silicon Valley company, reporting directly to the company’s CEO and
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