Yeshayahu Foerder (Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ פוֹרְדֶר, 25 March 1901 – 9 June 1970) was a German–Israeli lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1949 and 1957.
He made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1933, and the following year was one of the founders of the Rassco housing company, of which he became general director.
Foerder represented the Progressive Party at the Liberal International congress in Stresa in 1956, to which he brought a draft resolution on the Israeli–Egyptian conflict.
[3] Although he lost his seat in the July 1951 elections, he returned to the Knesset on 10 September that year as a replacement for Avraham Granot.
The Foerder Institute for Economic Research at Tel Aviv University was established in his memory the following year.