Yair Qedar (Hebrew: יאיר קדר‎, born June 13, 1969 in Afula, Israel) is an Israeli filmmaker and a civil-rights activist.[1] His academic training on 20th-century Hebrew literature (Tel Aviv University), propelled him into The Hebrews — a documentary project on the Hebrew and Jewish literary canon, centered on filmic portraits of Hebrew writers from the 17 century to recent days.[2] 16 feature length documentary films were made in the project so far.