Avraham Yosef Shapira (Hebrew: אברהם יוסף שפירא, 2 March 1921 – 26 June 2000) was an Israeli politician and businessman.

Born in Romania in 1921, Shapira attended the Kokhav MeYa'akov yeshiva in Trzebinia, and was later certified as a teacher.

[1] He made aliyah to Israel in 1949,[1] and began working with his father, a furrier.

He also served as chairman of the Bank of Israel's steering committee,[3] wielding a strong influence on the country's financial state.

He lost his seat in the 1988 elections, but returned to the Knesset in 1992 (by which time the party had formed the United Torah Judaism alliance with Degel HaTorah).