Salvator Cicurel (Arabic: سالفاتور شيكوريل; Hebrew: סלבטור סיקורל; 3 March 1893 – 15 February 1975) was an Egyptian Olympic foil and epee fencer, and later the president of Cairo's Sephardic Jewish Community Council from 1946 until 1957.
[2] His father first opened a textile store in Cairo, and then a department store Au Petit Bazaar, which eventually became Les Grand Magasins Cicurel, a grand emporium.
[4] Following his brothers’ deaths, Salvator led the family business, owning Les Grands Magasins Cicurel & Oreco S.A.E., which was a favorite shopping destination for the Egyptian royal family.
[2] In a meeting with the American Jewish Committee in New York in October 1948, he stated his belief about the 1948 Cairo bombings “the recent anti-Jewish outbreaks … [were] connected with the existence of Israel and the defeats of the Egyptian Army there.”[5][6] During the 1956 Suez Crisis his store was placed under government control.
After the war, Cicurel was forced to sell his interest to Egyptian Muslims, and he emigrated to Paris in 1957.