Yehuda Burla (Hebrew: יהודה בורלא; 18 September 1886 – 7 November 1969) was an Israeli author.

Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, originating from İzmir.

[1] As a child, he lived in the Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood near the corner of Jaffa Road and King George Street.

After graduating from the "Ezra" teachers seminary in Jerusalem, he began working, in both a teaching and administrative capacity, in various schools affiliated to the Zionist Organization.

[1] He continued teaching until 1944, when he started working in the public sector and was at one stage Head of the Arab Department of the Histadrut.