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Ariel Muzicant (born , IKG ), president of the Bnai Brith lodge Zwi-Perez-Chajes and initiator of the Zwi Perez Chajes school in Vienna .

Muzicant has been living in Vienna since the age of four, he visited the French lyceum in Vienna and finished his academic education in 1976 with a promotion in Medicine , afterwards he entered the estate agency owned by his father. Muzicant was part of diverse Jewish organisations already during his studying times at University , in 1973/74 he was chairman of the Viennese Jewish academic students.

In 1998 he got crowned 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 2 years) he was vice-president of the Jewish community and after his election he succeded Paul Grosz , who was named honorary president a few days after Muzicant's win. Since 1990 he is also a member of the the board of directors of the Jewish Museum Vienna .


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