Imil (Emile) Shukri Habibi (Arabic: إميل حبيبي‎, Hebrew: אמיל חביבי‎, 28 January 1922 – 2 May 1996) was an Israeli-Palestinian writer of Arabic expression and a communist politician, son of a Christian family.

In 2005, he was voted the 143rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

Habibi was born in Haifa on Aug. 29, 1922 in today's Israel, which at that time was part of the British Mandate of Palestine. Born into an Anglican Palestinian Arab family (his family had originally been Arab Orthodox but converted to Anglicanism due to disputes within the Orthodox church) In his early life he worked on an oil refinery and later was a radio announcer.

Under the Mandate he became one of the leaders of the Palestine Communist Party. When the 1948 Arab-Israeli War began in 1948 he stayed in Haifa while many others chose or were forced to leave the country. As a result he was granted Israeli citizenship. After the war he helped to create the Israeli Communist Party and established the Israeli communist paper Al-Ittihad.