Jordan Cohen (ג'ורדן כהן; born July 31, 1997) is an

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basketball player for

Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa ( he, מכבי חיפה) is one of the biggest sports clubs in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football ...

in the

Israel Basketball Premier League Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball co ...

, who plays the

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position.

Early life

Cohen was born in Tarzana,

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, and is

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. He is 6" 2" tall, and weighs 185 pounds. He attended Campbell Hall High School ('16) in

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Maccabiah Games and college

Cohen played basketball on Team USA in the 2017 Maccabiah Games, as the youngest player on the team. He averaged 6.2 points per game, as the team won the

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. He played on the team with among others

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and

Travis Warech Travis Warech (טרוויס ווריק; born July 5, 1991) is an American-German-Israeli professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Saint Michael' ...

. He attended and played basketball for

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Epis ...

, where Cohen majored in Finance ('20). Playing for the

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he averaged 9.3 points per game as a sophomore. He was team captain his junior and senior years. His senior season he averaging 14.2 points per game, and ranked sixth in the Patriot League in three-point percentage (38.1 percent). His junior year and senior years he was named Third-Team All-

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. He was named to the Academic All-Patriot League team for his last three years.

Professional career

In August 2020 Cohen signed a one-year contract with

, in the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Jordan Living people American expatriate basketball people in Israel Basketball players from Los Angeles Lehigh Mountain Hawks men's basketball players Israeli men's basketball players Jewish men's basketball players Maccabiah Games medalists in basketball 1997 births American men's basketball players Maccabi Haifa B.C. players People from Tarzana, Los Angeles Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States Jewish American sportspeople Jewish Israeli sportspeople Israeli people of American-Jewish descent 21st-century American Jews