Yoav Gelber

Yoav Gelber (Hebrew: יואב גלבר‎) (born September 25, 1943) is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

He was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1943 and studied world and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an expert on the history of the Israel Defense Forces. Yoav Gelber is also known to be a vocal opponent of Ilan Pappé when the latter was employed by the University of Haifa.