David Tidhar
 David Tidhar (7 June 1897 - 15 December 1970) was a Jewish-Israeli police officer private detective and author.Tidhar was born in Jaffa and served in the Palestine Police Force in Jerusalem. In 1926 he left the force and established his own private investigation office in Tel Aviv. This attracted the notice of author Shlomo Ben-Yisrael who founded The Detective Library in 1930 a series of chapbooks which featured the adventures of David Tidhar: The First Hebrew Detective.