Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (born 2 September 1938) is professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the international Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (1995–2002), chairman of the board of the Israel Antiquities Authority (2000–12) and vice-president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2010–15).He is 2019 The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture laureate in historyand the 2020 Israel Prize laureate in history research.