Yehoshua ben Gamla, or Joshua son of Gamla (Hebrew: יהושע בן גמלא), was a Jewish high priest who officiated in about 64 CE. He married the rich widow Martha of the high-priestly family Boethos, and she by bribing Jannai secured for him the office of high priest (according to Talmudic sources; Josephus says he was appointed by Herod Agrippa II). Although Yehoshua himself was not a scholar, he was solicitous for the instruction of the young, and provided schools in every town for children over five years of age, earning thereby the praises of posterity. The two lots used on the Day of Atonement, hitherto of boxwood, he made of gold. Yehoshua did not remain long in office, being forced, after a year, to give way to Matthias ben Theophil.