Eliyahu Sasson (Hebrew: אליהו ששון; 2 February 1902 – 8 October 1978) was a diplomat, member of the Knesset and minister in the government of Israel.

At the same time he engaged in Zionist activity, and led struggles of the younger generation in Damascus to give a Hebrew-Zionist tone to the Jewish Community Committee and its schools.

[1] In 1927 Sasson immigrated to Israel, where he worked as a laborer, and at the same time engaged in public activity as a lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs.

He also held this position under the Levy Eshkol government until the beginning of January 1967, when he was appointed Minister of Police in place of Bachor-Shalom Sheetrit who retired for health reasons.

A few days after the end of the Six-Day War, as a minister in the first unity government led by Levi Eshkol, he took on the role of 'Rebuker at the gate'[a] and in a series of comprehensive background memos for the government meetings (June 1967-July 1968), alongside his public appearances in the Knesset plenum, in party forums and lectures, He preached to launch an Israeli initiative whose main purpose is to take advantage of the results of the war - the occupied territories, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, to solve the problem of refugees from among the Arabs of the Land of Israel.

[7] Sasson died in October 1978 at the end of a serious illness that had confined him to bed for several years and had forced him to retire from his position as Minister of Police.