Dr Moshe Kantor is a prominent public figure, international philanthropist and scientist. He is President of the European Jewish Congress, a democratically elected position he has held for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022, and to which he was re-elected in May 2025 for a further four-year term.
Kantor is known worldwide for his fight against antisemitism, extremism, Holocaust denial and intolerance. The prosperity, freedom and security of the Jewish people are his first priorities. Under his leadership, EJC has become a recognised and unified voice of European Jewish communities.
Dr Kantor has founded and led many non-profit and charitable organisations in Europe, Israel and beyond, motivated by his deep commitment to education and philanthropy. In particular, Dr Kantor founded in 2006 the European Jewish Fund (“EJF”) in order to strengthen Jewish communities and Jewish life in Europe. The EJF supports educational, cultural and leadership programmes to foster Jewish pride and a sense of community, as well as to celebrate Jewish heritage. Over 400 projects across Europe have been supported by the EJF since its creation.
In 2005, Moshe Kantor founded the World Holocaust Forum, an international organisation registered in Israel dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and harnessing its lessons for all of humanity (“WHF”). Under his leadership, the WHF created a series of events known as the “World Holocaust Forum”, attended by heads of state from around the world. Such events took place in Poland (in 2005 and 2010), in Ukraine (in 2006), in the Czech Republic (in 2015) and in Israel (in 2020). In parallel, since he took the leadership of the European Jewish Congress, Dr Kantor also organized annual Holocaust Remembrance events in partnership with the European Parliament and other EU institutions every year.
Dr Kantor’s organisation of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Yad Vashem in 2020 on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was the largest diplomatic event ever held in Israel, attended by nearly 50 Heads of Government/State, including royalties, presidents and EU leaders.
Due to the increasing threat faced by Jewish communities, in 2012 Dr Kantor founded the Security and Crisis Management Centre (“SACC”), with the aim of preparing Jewish communities to respond to crisis situations. The programme expanded gradually and in 2016, at the initiative of Dr Kantor and with his full financial support, a new entity, SACC by EJC was created to ensure the physical safety and reinforce the crisis preparedness of Jewish communities across Europe. The leading work carried out by SACC was recognised when in April 2021 it was selected by the European Commission to receive a special grant to reinforce resilience and develop security solutions for Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist places of worship in the European Union.
Dr Kantor created several NGOs dedicated to the most pressing issues and challenges that the wider society is facing today, such as preventing nuclear catastrophes and fostering reconciliation between people and nations. Important personalities have collaborated with Dr Kantor in these frameworks, including Tony Blair, Sebastian Kurz, Stefan Löfven, Aleksander Kwaniewski, etc.
For his outstanding work, Dr Kantor was celebrated and received the highest State honours and distinctions in, among others:
Moshe Kantor graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1976) and has a PHD in Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems (1981).
Based in Brussels, the European Jewish Congress is the representative umbrella organisation of national Jewish communities. It federates democratically elected national Jewish community organisations in over 40 European countries uniting 2.5 million Jews across the continent.
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