יעקב כהן (נ’ 1958) בתפקיד פארוקי, "הבורר"
מכבי יפו, 1983

יליד מקנס, מרוקו. עלה לארץ עם משפחתו בשנת 1964, ובראשית שנות השמונים הגיע לתל אביב ממגדל העמק כדי לשחק בתיאטרון.
במחצית השנייה של שנות ה-80 החל לגלם תפקידים איקוניים כקומיקאי אדיר וכשחקן דרמה מוכשר גם בקולנוע וגם בטלוויזה. כך למשל, בסדרת המופת "הבורר" של רשף לוי גילם ב-2014-2010 את עמוס פארוקי, שחקן עבר של מכבי יפו שהופך לאיש העולם התחתון.

לעמוד הפרויקט: קוד QR Instagram page - At.Olami

A series of signs placed in 2025 on one of the banks of the Yarkon River, featuring cultural figures, some of whom are still alive, dressed in the uniforms of the football teams they supported. The project was created by Tal Shetach, an illustrator who was himself a football player Click for sign's details

In the current sign, Yaakov Cohen in the uniform of the Maccabi Jaffa team, during the period when the sponsor was Sammy Burks

Yaakov Cohen died in November 2024, probably after the sign was made (therefore the year of his death does not appear)

Translation of the text on the sign:

Yaakov Cohen (b. 1958) as Faruki, "The Arbitrator"
Maccabi Jaffa, 1983

Born in Meknes, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1964, and in the early 1980s came to Tel Aviv from Migdal HaEmek to act in theater.
In the second half of the 1980s he began playing iconic roles as a great comedian and a talented drama actor in both film and television. For example, in Reshef Levy’s masterpiece series "The Arbitrator" in 2010-2014 he played Amos Faruki, a former Maccabi Jaffa player who becomes a man of the underworld.

For the project page: QR code Instagram page - At.Olami