Ze'ev Elkin (Hebrew: זְאֵב אֵלְקִין; Russian: Зеэв Элькин; born 3 April 1971)[1] is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a Member of the Knesset for the New Hope Party.

Born Vladimir Borisovich Elkin to a secular Russian-speaking Jewish family in Kharkiv in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), Elkin became interested in Judaism, joined the Bnei Akiva movement, and learned Hebrew on his own.

Elkin was elected to the 17th Knesset in 2006 as a member of Kadima and chaired the subcommittee on the absorption of immigrant children and youth.

In November 2012, he released an election video for his Likud primaries campaign that went viral, earning 250,000 views in only a matter of days.

[5] On 30 May 2016, Elkin lost the portfolio of Minister of Immigrant Absorption to Sofa Landver of Yisrael Beiteinu.

[9] Elkin resigned from the government as Minister of Water Resources and Higher Education, left Likud and joined Gideon Sa'ar's party, New Hope, on 23 December 2020.

After joining the government, he resigned from the Knesset under the Norwegian Law and was replaced by Meir Yitzhak Halevi.