Yaakov Turner (Hebrew: יעקב טרנר‎; 27 February 1935 – 27 October 2024) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the mayor of Beersheba.

Prior to his election as mayor, he was an Israel Air Force pilot and the country's Chief of Police.

[2] Yaakov Turner was born in Kfar Yona, Mandatory Palestine, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Poland.

[3] Turner enlisted in the Israeli Air Force in 1953 and retired in 1985 as a brigadier general.

Turner served as president of the Israeli branch of the International Police Association.