Alexander Peli (Hebrew: אלכסנדר פלי; 1915–2007) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli encyclopedist, the supervising editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica.

[2] The Pilipovetskys moved to Palestine when he was six years old and he went to high school in Tel Aviv.

[1] In July 1921 his family were early settlers in the new city of Tel Aviv in Palestine[2] (the land that was to become the State of Israel).

[1] In 1944 a committee was formed to work out the aims and objectives of a project to create an encyclopedia in Hebrew.

The introduction to the first volume boldly announced that it was planned to complete the encyclopedia project in "five to six years".

[citation needed] It was not until 1980 that another editor, Professor Joshua Prawer, managed to declare the encyclopedia as complete.