Yael Lotan (Hebrew: יעל לוטן; September 11, 1935 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli writer, journalist, editor, translator, peace and human rights activist.

Lotan was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1935, the daughter of Dr. Binyamin Eliav né Lubotzky (1909, Riga – July 30, 1974, Petah Tikva), an Israeli journalist and diplomat, a member of the Revisionist Zionism movement and editor of the "HaMashkif" newspaper, who became a member of the social democratic Mapai party, just before the state was founded.

A year later she went to study in London and lived in Golders Green, where she married Maurice Stoppi, a Jewish-English engineer.

[1] In 1981, she published the story of the life of Amos Orion, who was convicted in the 1960s for murder although he proclaimed his innocence throughout his trial and imprisonment, and was pardoned in 1980.

[1] On November 6, 1986, Lotan met in Romania, as part of a delegation of about 20 people, with Palestine Liberation Organization members, and as a result was prosecuted, about a year later, along with Reuven Kaminer, Latif Dori and Eliezer Feiler, for violating the so-called "Meetings Law", which banned contact between Israelis and representatives of a "terrorist organization".

[5] Lotan translated fiction and non-fiction from Hebrew into English, including the works of Shlomo Sand, Alona Kimchi, Sami Michael, Dorit Rabinyan, and Gershon Shaked.