title: Yizhar
text: # Yizhar
  
  Yizhar may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Yizhar Ashdot (born 1958), Israeli musician
  * Yizhar Cohen (swimmer) (born 1962), Israeli paralympic swimmer
  * Yizhar Harari (1908–78), Israeli Zionist activist and politician
  * Yizhar Hess (born 1967), CEO of the Masorti Judaism movement in Israel
  * Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006), Israeli archaeologist
  * Yizhar Shai (born 1963), Israeli businessman and politician
  * Yizhar Smilansky (1916–2006), better known by his pen name S. Yizhar, Israeli writer and politician
  
  ### Surname
  
  * S. Yizhar, see Yishar Smilanksy above)
  
  ## Other
  
  * Yitzhar, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank
  