Itamar Rabinovich (Hebrew: איתמר רבינוביץ; born 8 October 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem).

He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 and 1996, and the former president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007).

Rabinovich has been a member of Tel Aviv University's faculty since 1971, and served as Ettinger Professor of the Contemporary History of the Middle East, chairman of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and Dean of Humanities and Rector.

He was president of Tel Aviv University (1999–2007) (following Yoram Dinstein, and succeeded by Zvi Galil).

In 1992, he won the National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category for The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations[2] He received Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques from France.