Arie Zeev Raskin

Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin (; born 1976) is the Chief Rabbi of Cyprus and the first rabbi on the island in many years.

Career Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin's brothers are also serving as rabbis in Jewish communities, with Rabbi Shlomo Raskin in Frankfurt and Rabbi Shmuel Raskin in Budapest. He moved to Cyprus in 2003 with his wife, Shaindel, and their children in an effort to reintroduce Jewish life onto the island. He had previously lived in Kiryat Malachi. He is a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. By 2006, the building of a mikveh called Mei Menachem was completed, and a summer centre in Ayia Napa and the Cyprus International Jewish School were opened. Raskin said, "Our primary goal is to improve the quality of Jewish life for every Jew in Cyprus: the moral values and rich traditions that Judaism has to offer are things that no Jew should be deprived of".

In 2018, Rabbi Raskin proposed the idea of the Jewish Museum of Cyprus. The Museum, set to be built in Larnaca, Cyprus. The purpose of the Museum is to educate people on the history of Jewish presence in Cyprus. The museum will also focus on Cypriots who helped Holocaust refugees while in the WW2 British internment camps in Cyprus. The Museum will promote awareness, tolerance and show how the Jewish people and Israel are important contributors to culture, education, science and the arts and will promote a better understanding of cultures so that in this environment there can be peace in the Middle East".

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