Zev Golan (Hebrew: זאב גולן‎) is an Israeli historian, author, and Senior Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, where he was previously Director of the Public Policy Center. In the 1970s he was one of the world's foremost Nazi hunters. Coordinating with Simon Wiesenthal and Israeli Police he helped bring justice to Archbishop Valerian Trifa and Boleslavs Maikovskis. He moved to Israel in 1979.