Moshe Pearlman (Hebrew: משה פרלמן; 1911 – 5 April 1986), born Maurice Pearlman, was an Israeli writer.^[1]

He was born in London, England, and his original name was Morris Perlman.^[1] His father was born in Minsk, his mother was born in England by an immigrant family who came from Poland.^{[citation needed]}

He studied at the London School of Economics,^[1] and was a student of Harold Laski.

He first worked in the 1930s as a journalist, where he was editor of the Zionist Review.^[1] In 1936, he emigrated to Israel, and lived in a kibbutz for a year.^[1]

He joined the Army of the newly founded state. From 1948 to 1952 he was the first Israeli military spokesman.^[1][2]

In 1960 he retired and devoted himself to literary activity.^{[citation needed]}

• What has been happening in Palestine, 1937
• The kvutza: a description of the collective settlement in Palestine (with Shalom Wurm), 1943
• Mufti of Jerusalem: The Story of Haj Amin El Husseini, 1947 (Victor Gollancz Ltd., London)
• Adventure in the Sun: An Informal Account of the Communal Settlements of Palestine, 1947 (Victor Gollancz/Left Book Club, London)
• The army of Israel, 1950
• The Capture Of Adolf Eichmann, 1961
• The capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, 1963
• Historical sites in Israel, 1965
• The Zealots of Masada, 1967
• Jerusalem; a history of forty centuries (with Teddy Kollek), 1968
• In the footsteps of Moses, 1973
• The Maccabees, 1973
• Digging up the Bible: the stories behind the great archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land, 1980