Ariel Muzicant

Ariel Muzicant (Hebrew: אריאל מוזיקנט, born 1952 in Haifa, Israel) is an Austrian-Israeli businessman, who served as the president of the Viennese Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien).

He is the president of the Bnai Brith lodge Zwi-Perez-Chajes and initiator of the Zwi Perez Chajes school in Vienna.

In 1998 he was elected President of the Israelite Cultural Organization of Vienna and re-elected six years later in 2004.

Ariel Muzicant is the first president of the IKG born after the Shoah and the Second World War.

From 1982 till 2004 (with an interruption of two years) he was vice-president of the Jewish community and after his election he succeeded Paul Grosz, who was named honorary president a few days after Muzicant's victory.