Books:
1. Y. Harel, The Books of Aleppo &endash; The Rabbinic Literature of the Scholars of Aleppo, Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 1997 (Hebrew)
2. . Y. Harel, By Ships of Fire to the West: Changes in Syrian Jewry during the Period of the Ottoman Reform (1840-1880), The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History , Jerusalem 2003 (Hebrew)
Articles:
2. Y. Harel, 'The Overthrow of the Last Aleppan Chief Rabbi', Pe'amim, 44 (1990), pp. 110 &endash; 131 (Hebrew)
3. Y. Harel, 'A Spiritual Agitation in the East &endash; The Foundation of a Reform Community in Aleppo in 1862', HUCA, Vol. LXIII (1992), pp. ??-?? (Hebrew)
4. Y. Harel, 'The Edict to Destroy 'Em LaMikra' &endash; Aleppo 1865', HUCA, LXIV (1993), pp. ??-?? (Hebrew)
5. Y. Harel, 'Latakia &endash; A Forgotten Colony of the First Aliyah', Cathedra, 74 (1994), pp. 62-85 (Hebrew)
6. Y. Harel, 'The Encounter of Exiles from Palestine with Damascus Jewry in the Twentieth Century', Zion, 61 (1996), pp. 183-207 (Hebrew)
7. Y. Harel, 'The Status and Image of the Piccioto Family as Perceived by Aleppo's French Colony (1784-1850)', Michael, 14 (1997), pp. 171-186 (Hebrew)
8. Y. Harel, '"Great Progress": The Committee of Deputies and the Community of Damascus &endash; Surveys, Programs and Actions', Pe'amim, 67 (1996), pp. 57-95 (Hebrew)
9. Y. Harel, 'The Influence of the Books "Pnei Yizhak", "Yismah Lev" and "Lev Nishbar" on the Struggle on the Post of the Chief Rabbi in Damascus 1873-1883', Asufot, 11 (1998), pp. 211-243 (Hebrew)
10. Y. Harel, 'Disagreement and Agreement &endash; Sephardim and Musta'ribun in Aleppo', in Y. Dishon & S. Rephael (eds.), Ladinar &endash; Research in the Literature, Music and History of the Ladino Speakers, 1 (1998), pp. 119-138 (Hebrew)
11. Y. Harel, 'The Damascus Jewish Community and Its Customs in the Notes of Eliezer Rivlin', Pe'amim, 74 (1998), pp. 131-155 (Hebrew)
12. Y. Harel, 'Midhat Pasha and the Jewish Community of Damascus: Two New Documents, Turcica, 28 (1996), pp. 339-345.
13. Y. Harel, 'Jewish-Christian Relations in Aleppo as Background for the Jewish Response to the Events of October 1850', IJMES, 30.1 (1998), pp. 77-96.
14. Y. Harel, ' The First Jews from Aleppo in Manchester: New Documentary Evidence', AJS Review, 23/2 (1998), pp. 191-202
15. Y. Harel, 'The Controversy over Rabbi Ephraim Laniado's Inheritance of the Rabbinate in Aleppo', Jewish History, 13/1 (1999), pp. 83-101
16.Y. Harel, 'Le Consul de France et l'Affaire de Damas a la lumiére de nouveaux documents', Revue d'histoire diplomatique, No. 2 (1999), pp. 143-170
18. Y. Harel, 'Rabbinic Literature in Syria and Lebanon 1750-1950', Pe'amim, 86-87 (2001), pp. 67-123 (Hebrew)
20. Y. Harel, 'The Motives for Change in the Attitude of the Rabbinic Elite in the Middle East towards Modernity', AJS Review, 26 (2002), pp. 1-58 (Hebrew)
23. Y. Harel, 'The Jewish "Girl-Singers" in Damascus', in T. Cohen & S. Regev (eds.), Women in the East, Woman from the East, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 109-127 (Hebrew)
24. Y. Harel, '"Likutei Amarim enLadino" &endash; About the Polemic Literature of Rabbi Refael Kasin', D. Bunis & Others (eds), The Languages and the Literature of the Sephardim and the Oriental Jews, (Forthcoming, Hebrew)
25. Y. Harel, 'The Citizenship of the Algerian-Jewish Immigrants in Damascus', The Maghreb Review, 28 (2003), pp. 294-305
