Avner Shalev

Avner Shalev Hebrew: אבנר שלו; born 1939) was the chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate of The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority from 1993 to 2021.

Shalev was part of the international military and political negotiations that followed the war, including the famous Kilometer 101 accords with Egyptian General Gamassi, which eventually led to the Israel–Egypt peace treaty.

Shalev established the Education Corps' central officers' training base and advanced the development of core theory and practice for cultivating Israeli military leadership.

Additionally, Shalev sought to provide better access to fact-based information about the Holocaust by developing and enriching Yad Vashem online presence, available in multiple languages.

As chairman of Yad Vashem Shalev dealt with the controversy over Pope Pius XII,[clarification needed] and with the Museum's complicated relations with the Roman Catholic Church.