Yossi Ben-Artzi (Hebrew: יוסי בן ארצי; born July 4, 1949) is an israeli historian and geographer.
His family on his father's side were among the founders of the settlement of Hartuv in the Judaean Mountains[7](near modern-day Beit Shemesh) in 1895.
The family left Hartuv following the 1929 Hebron massacre, in which the settlement was attacked and destroyed by Arabs from the neighboring village of Dayr Aban.
He spent his post-doctoral studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he researched the cultural landscape of the German Templer villages that emigrated to Palestine and settled there in the 19th century.
In 2010, he took a sabbatical at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK,[15][16] and at The Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University.
[25] In 1979, before the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, the leaders of the movement visited Cairo at the personal invitation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
[27] During the Israel–Hamas war, Prof. Ben Artzi, alongside renowned academics such as Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, Prof. David Harel, Prof. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Prof. Benny Morris, and Prof. Anita Shapira, publicly advocated for the creation of temporary centers to house Palestinians displaced by the fighting.