This page is about the song "Israelites", there is also a race of people called Israelites.

"Israelites" is a song which was written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong for Desmond Dekker & The Aces. It was the first international hit by a Jamaican artist, it reached the top ten in the United States and in April 1969 it was number one in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Jamaica, South Africa, Canada, Sweden and West Germany.

The song was used in a 1990 television commercial for Maxell audio cassettes and was also parodied in the British commercial for Vitalite spread in the early 1990s.