Yoav Benjamini (Hebrew: יואב בנימיני; born 5 January 1949) is an Israeli statistician best known for development (with Yosef Hochberg) of the "false discovery rate" criterion.

He is currently The Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at Tel Aviv University.

Yoav graduated high school from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1966 and later studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel graduating in 1973.

[1] Benjamini's scientific work combines theoretical research in statistical methodology with applied research that involves complex problems with massive data.

His research citations (from Google Scholar) exceeds 100,000.