The Central Council of Jewish Communities in Finland has elected Yaron Nadbornik as its new president.
Nadbornik been acting since 2010 as head of the Jewish Community of Helsinki and continues in this task. He alsoserved been the president of the National Forum for Cooperation of Religions in Finland (CORE) from 2013 2015.
Yaron Nadbornik is the youngest person ever to be elected as the president of the Central Council in the history of the Jewish communities of Finland.
There are some 1,500 Jews in Helsinki, the capital (1,100 of whom are community members) and another 200 in Turku. Jewish settlement in Finland is relatively recent, dating back to 1825.
The Central Council of Jewish Communities in Finland is the leading communal body. The community's priority is the preservation of the Jewish heritage. The community also maintains a home for the aged.
Finnish Jews have been active in inter-Nordic cooperation and in reaching out to their Jewish neighbors across the Baltic, particularly in Estonia. The Central Council of Jewish Comminities in Finland has been affiliated with the World Jewish Congress since the WJC's foundation in 1936.
