Hanoch Gutfreund (Hebrew: חנוך גוטפרוינד; born 1935) is the Andre Aisenstadt Chair in theoretical physics and was the president at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gutfreund received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1966.

[1][2] Gutfreund is the Andre Aisenstadt Chair in Theoretical Physics and has been a professor at the university since 1985.

[2][3] Gutfreund was earlier the Head of the Physics Institute, Head of the Advanced Studies Institute, Rector, and President of the university from 1992 to 1997 (following Yoram Ben-Porat, and succeeded by Menachem Magidor).

[2] His writings include The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2017) and The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2017), and Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2020).