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Daniel Atar (; born 5 January 1958) is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union between 2015 and 2016.
In 1994 he was elected leader of Gilboa Regional Council. While serving in that role he ran for the interim leadership of the Labor Party in 2003, winning 21.9% of the vote. In 2009, Atar was detained and investigated along with five other municipal workers for fraudulently receiving goods and mismanagement of campaign funds.
He was placed 16th on the Labor Party list for the 2013 Knesset elections, a spot reserved for the agricultural sector, The new Labor list: A mixed blessing for Yacimovich Haaretz, 30 November 2012 but did not become a Knesset member as the party won only 15 seats. Although he was next in line to replace Binyamin Ben-Eliezer following his retirement from politics, he gave up his seat for Raleb Majadele. Raleb Majadla Replaces Ben Eliezer in Knesset Israel National News, 14 December 2014
Prior to the 2015 elections he was placed 15th on the Zionist Union list, Zionist Union list Central Elections Committee an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah. He was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats. Final Unofficial* results of the Elections for the Twentieth Knesset Central Elections Committee
In October 2015 Atar was elected head of the Jewish National Fund. Zionist Union MK Danny Atar elected head of KKL-JNF; to be replaced in Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran Ynetnews, 19 October 2015 He was replaced in the Knesset by Yael Cohen Paran, the head of the Green Movement. In 2020 Atar was accused of being party to the illegal spending of 100 million shekels to purchase lands in the West Bank without the permission of the Jewish National Fund Board.
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