Ms. Yehudit Hannah Cohn

Yehudit Cohn, 43 - From Charleston, West Virginia, to Jerusalem

At the Jaffa Street Felafel Bar, it's the middle of the afternoon, but all the tables are taken, and the line at the counter stretches to the door.Unless you told them, few customers enjoying the felafel, shakshuka and kebab would know the vivacious blond behind the counter not only owns the place, but is also a new immigrant who hails from West Virginia.

"I was so American," Yehudit Cohn says."I love Wal-Mart, movie popcorn and hot dogs.But now my passion is for Israel, everything that we are and could be."

Cohn grew up as something of a vagabond.
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"My father's a serious academic," Cohn says."But that's my orientation, too.I've done a lot of things, but I'm an academic at heart."

Cohn has a degree in communications, creative advertising and writing, a Masters in Humanities and her last job in America was as director of humanities for West Virginia State College.
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Cohn says she gets up at seven, a statement that draws laughter from Rami, one of the Felafel Bar's English-speaking employees.
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Yehudit Cohn, 43