Yehoshua Arieli (Hebrew: יהושע אריאלי; 26 July 1916 – 3 August 2002) was an Israeli historian and Emeritus Professor of American History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[1] He was born in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia, and was taken to Ereẓ Israel in 1931.

Arieli was perhaps best known for writing Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology.

[2][3] Between 1976 and 1991 Arieli served as chairman and member of the board of directors of the Historical Society of Israel.

As a respected person in the field of American History and American studies, he founded and established the field of American History and studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also aided in the launch of the field at the universities Tel Aviv and Haifa.