09 January 2008
The board of Vienna’s Jewish community (IKG Wien) has confirmed Ariel Muzicant as its president for another five-year term. Muzicant, 55, who served as IKG vice-president from 1981 to 1988 has been president since 1998. Oskar Deutsch and Uri Gilkarov were elected as his deputies.
Vienna’s IKG is the largest community in Austria, which numbers around 15,000 Jews, half of which are registered community members. Muzicant also heads of the Austrian Jewish community. During his tenure as IKG president, the finances of the Jewish community were put on a solid footing and property looted by the Nazis was restituted.
