Yair Tzaban (Hebrew: יאיר צבן, born 23 August 1930) is an Israeli politician, academic and social activist.

During the years 1996-2002 he served as the head of the Academic Board of the Lavon Institute for Research of the Labor Movement and lectured at Tel Aviv University to graduate students in the Department for Public Policy.

In 2000 he initiated the publishing of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture in the Era of Modernization and Secularization, with Yirmiyahu Yovel as Editor in Chief and himself as Director General of the project.

[4] Throughout his career he has been deeply involved in the fight against religious coercion, for pluralistic approach and for granting equal status to the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel.

[5] He is married to Shulamit, father to Smadar and Dror, and grandfather to Dana, Shai, Rothem and Noam.