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Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, known as Baba Sali(Arabic: "praying father") (1890-1984), was a Moroccan-born rabbi and kabbalist.

The name AbuHatzeira has become legendary in fact, story and song among wide circles of modern-day Jews. This is due in no small measure to the impact on the Jewish consciousness of the life of the Baba Sali, the "Praying Father" of the Moroccan Jewish community, who made Aliyah to the Land of Israel in the middle of the twentieth century.

He died in 1984 (4 Shevat 5744). His funeral was attended by an estimated 100,000 people. His grave-site in Netivot has become a popular pilgrimage site in Israel. Two other people are buried nearby. His second wife, Miriam Abuhatzeira, is buried in an adjoining wing of the Baba Sali Tomb as well as David Bouskila, the builder and founder of the tomb complex. In 2007, his Hillula (the anniversary of his passing, is on Tuesday January 22nd, with celebrations starting on Monday evening which starts the 4th of the month of Shevat.