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