David Shahar (1926-1997) was an Israeli fiction writer, translator, and editor best known for his depiction of old Jerusalem in the multi-volume historical saga The Palace of Shattered Vessels (1968–94).

He was involved with the Irgun Tzvai Leumi and the Canaanite movement, and identified as an Orthodox Jewish, ultranationalist, right-wing writer.

projects a sociocultural world that does not embody any historically defined ideological position in the context of the debate around and within Zionism.

Shahar's series of novels The Palace of Shattered Vessels is recognized by many as his masterpiece, considered a realist depiction of life in pre-State Jerusalem.

[1] Poet and chemist Avner Treinin spoke at his funeral when Shahar was buried on the Mount of Olives.