Tarif Bader (Hebrew: טריף בדר, Arabic: طريف بدر; born August 5, 1967) is an Israeli-Druze physician and a retired Brigadier General who served in the Israel Defense Forces for more than 35 years in various positions, during his tenure, he was responsible for several Operations of Humanitarian Assistance and Rescue Missions of the IDF around the world.

[3][4] Between 1985 and 1992, he studied Medicine as part of the Israeli Defense Forces' academic reserve program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, completing his internship at Barzilai Medical Center.

[6] Bader is an Associate Clinical Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University, as part of the "Tzameret" track for training medical cadets.

In March 2019, he delivered a speech as an official representative of the State of Israel at the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference at the UN General Assembly in New York (thus becoming the first Israeli officer to speak from this platform).

On July 8, 2020, he was appointed by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Professor Hezi Levy, to be a member of a professional advisory committee for eradicating and preventing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Israeli Arab sector.

In May 2021, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, United States, in recognition of his extensive and exceptional work in humanitarian aid and for being a role model for future physicians.