Dvorah Barzilay-Yegar (Hebrew: דבורה ברזילי-יגר; born 1933) is an Israeli historian,[1] who has carried out many years of scholarly research into the life and political activities of Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel.
Her doctoral work was on "A National Home for the Jewish People – The Concept in British Political Thinking and Policy Making, 1917–1923".
On her return to Israel, she edited Volumes VII and VIII of Weizmann's letters which were later published in Hebrew and English.
From 1974 to 1985, Barzilay was research director and editor of the survey of archival sources of the history of British Mandate in Palestine, 1914–1948, a project sponsored and financed by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem, Israel (in collaboration with the British Academy).
In New York she taught as adjunct professor at Queens College of the City University of New York, in Sweden she took part in academic conferences and in the Czech Republic she taught as visiting professor at Charles University in Prague and took part in academic conferences.