Shlomo Breznitz (Hebrew: שלמה ברזניץ; born 3 August 1936) is an Israeli author, psychologist, former professor of psychology, former rector and president of the University of Haifa,[1] and previous member of the Knesset.

[2] He is the founder and currently one of the members of the board of directors[3] of CogniFit, a brain fitness software company.

During the Holocaust he and his sister were hidden in a Roman Catholic orphanage,[4] an experience detailed in his memoirs, "Memory Fields".

He was the founding director of the Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological Stress at the University of Haifa in 1979.

After Ehud Olmert, a personal friend, convinced him to enter politics, Breznitz was elected to the Knesset on the Kadima list in 2006,[8] the first Slovak to become an MK.