Mordechai Zaken also Moti Zaken (Hebrew: ????/????? ???; Arabic: ?????? ??????) (born 1958 in Jerusalem) is the 2019 laureate of "the Prime Minister Prize for the research of the Jews of the Orient."[1][2] [3][4] He is an expert on the Kurds and Middle Eastern minorities both as academic – he is historian of the Jews, the Kurds and the Assyrians in Kurdistan and as professional - serving as the advisor on Israeli Arabs and minorities to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (1997–1999), and to the Ministry of Public Security from 2001.