Yehiel Dov Dresner (Hebrew: יחיאל דב דרזנר; October 13, 1922 – April 16, 1947) was an Irgun member in pre-state Mandatory Palestine and one of 12 Olei Hagardom.

Dresner was 15 when Shlomo Ben-Yosef was hanged: the incident had a powerful effect and instilled in him an urge for vengeance against the British.

In 1942, he moved to Tel Aviv, where he worked in a factory and joined a group of Jewish nationalists who aimed to combat the use of foreign languages by trying to stop kiosks from selling non-Hebrew newspapers.

Initially, Dresner worked in the Irgun's propaganda department, but after a period of time, he was transferred to its intelligence service.

In 1944, his brother Tzvi, a senior commander in the Irgun, was arrested five days after his wedding and interned in Africa, and, along with most of the other Jewish underground internees in African detention camps, would only be released in June 1948.

[2] After learning that the police planned to arrest him too, Dresner left his home and job and adopted the false identity of Dov Rosenbaum.

He then moved to Hadera and was placed in charge of the local Irgun branch while hiding from the British and the Haganah, which was then carrying out the Hunting Season.

During that raid, an Arab constable and two Irgun fighters were killed, and one, Dov Gruner, who was later hanged alongside Dresner, was wounded and captured.

Public figures and institutions in the Yishuv appealed for the sentences to be commuted, and a petition pleading for clemency was signed by hundreds of residents of Petah Tikva.