Arnon Soffer (born 24 December 1935) is an Israeli geographer and a professor of Geography and environmental sciences, specialising in water issues and demography.
Soffer is one of the founders of the University of Haifa.
He is known for his research into demographic, water, environmental, political, and strategy issues of the state of Israel.
Soffer has been vocal about the very existence of Palestinians as posing a "demographic threat" in that they may not be a minority population and thus they are a threat by the ability to vote.
His alleged obsession with the demographic threat posed by Arabs led to some of his colleagues at the University of Haifa nicknaming him "Arnon the Arab-counter", a joking reference to the fact that the Hebrew surname Soffer literally means "one who counts".
As such he has been credited with working to implement the "separation policy" of Israel.
This has been labeled by some as modeling an apartheid protocol.