Yuval Elizur (October 21, 1927 – September 10, 2019) was an Israeli journalist, diplomat and author who worked as a journalist for 51 years until his retirement in 2005 . He published eight books on the Israeli economy, globalization, and economic warfare, including Who Rules Israel, which was published in the United States by Harper and Row in 1973. Since his retirement, Yuval researched the effect of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy on Israel. He lived in Jerusalem.