Hanoch Bartov (Hebrew: חנוך ברטוב; 13 August 1926 – 13 December 2016) was an Israeli author and journalist.

Hanoch Helfgott (Bartov) was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland.

[2] After working in diamond polishing and welding for two years, he enlisted in 1943, at the age of 17, in the Palestine Regiment of the British Army.

He spent three years in the Jewish Brigade, first in Palestine and then in Italy and the Netherlands, where he served as a medic, caring for Holocaust survivors in DP camps.

After World War II, Bartov studied Jewish and general history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.