Yaron Nisenholz is 53 years old and has many years’ experience as a community rabbi in Israel and Europe. He was ordained in 2002 by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which also qualified him as a city rabbi in 2023. From 2002 to 2015 he served in Basel, becoming the city’s Chief Rabbi in 2008. Following his return to Israel, he took up a post as a community rabbi in Tel Aviv. He is now based in Vienna. He is married, the father of five children and the grandfather of eight grandchildren. Rabbi Nisenholz has served as Chief Rabbi of the IKG Vienna since November 2026 and is thus the independently acting rabbi of the venerable Vienna City Temple (the main synagogue of the Jewish Community of Vienna since 1946) , head of the rabbinate of the IKG Vienna and the halachic authority for the institutions of the IKG Vienna; as such, he is the rabbi responsible for all halachic matters at the Maimonides Centre (except for kashrut), the rabbi of the ZPC School, and holds rabbinical and halachic responsibility for the Jewish section (IV.Tor) at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
Chief Rabbi Yaron Nisenholz can be contacted on:
+43 664 888 516 95 | +43 153104-110
y.nisenholz@ikg-wien.at