David Horowitz[1] (Hebrew: דוד הורוביץ; 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an Israeli economist and the first Governor of the Bank of Israel.

David Horowitz was born in Drohobych, in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Ukraine.

From May 1948 to June 1952, he was the first Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Finance.

[2] In December 1954, he founded the Bank of Israel and served as its Governor until 31 October 1971.

In his autobiography Ha-Etmol Shelli (1970), Horowitz describes the ideological struggle in the Palestine Labor and colonization movement in the late 1920s.