Mordechai Cohen (born 1969, Hatzor HaGlilit) is an Israeli executive and senior public servant. He served as Director General of the Ministry of the Interior from January 2017 to June 2021. During his term, he led significant reforms in local government, including in the areas of equalization grants, municipal taxation (arnona), and training programs for municipal cadets in peripheral regions.

Cohen is a Senior Fellow at the Israeli Institute for Policy Thought and one of the co-authors of the proposal for a New Regionalism in Israel—an initiative aimed at decentralizing powers from the central government to regional authorities and local communities, in order to promote smart, adaptive, and community-based public governance.