Menahem Stern (Hebrew: מנחם שטרן; March 5, 1925 – June 22, 1989) was an internationally acclaimed Israeli historian of the Second Temple period.

In his childhood he studied Hebrew and religious texts, but later acquired a general education that included Latin.

He was president of the Historical Society of Israel, a founder of the Zalman Shazar Center and an editor of "Zion".

He was on the Executive Committee of the World Union of Jewish Studies and was very active in Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi.

On June 22, 1989, Stern was murdered by Palestinian terrorists while walking to the Jewish National and University Library in Givat Ram through the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem, as he did every day.