Israel Klabin

Israel Klabin (born 20 September 1926) is a Brazilian civil engineer, mathematician, environmentalist and politician. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He served as the second Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 15 March 1979 to 3 June 1980. He was a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.

After serving as mayor, Klabin was president of the State Bank of Rio de Janeiro from 1980 to 1983.

Political career He was a founding member of the Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (ISEB), served as a consultant and regional development planner and co-authored guidelines for development in the Brazilian Northeast. He was also a member of the development council of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). After separation, he married again in 1975 with Léa Manela, with whom he had three more children. One of his sons, Leonardo Klabin, was a state representative of Rio de Janeiro for the Brazilian Democratic Movement.