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Helping affix a mezuzah at the Israel Diamond Exchange in Dubai’s Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) are (from left): Alex Peterfreund, co-founder and cantor of the Jewish Council of the Emirates (JCE); Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the JCE; and Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of the DMCC, Jan. 28, 2021.

Rabbi, cantor hang mezuzah at Israel Diamond Exchange office in Dubai

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Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates (JCE) in the United Arab Emirates, and Alex Peterfreund, co-founder and cantor of the JCE, affixed a mezuzah on the new representative office...
Israel welcomed a delegation of leaders and activists from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in December 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

As Israel-UAE ties deepen, BDS advocates ‘give up’ on efforts to boycott Jewish state

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Amid expanding ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates following the Abraham Accords, a leading Palestinian BDS organization is giving up on efforts to boycott the Jewish state inside of the Arab Gulf...
Barbara Leaf. Source: YouTube.

Biden to tap former ambassador to UAE to National Security Council

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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to name former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Barbara Leaf to the White House National Security Council, reported Vox on Monday, citing sources familiar with the situation. Leaf will join...
Arab Gulf leaders pose together following the restoration of ties between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as well as other Arab countries, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. Source: Twitter.

Debate over Qatar: Is blockade-ending move positive for Middle East?

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates ended their three-and-a-half-year blockade against Qatar on Tuesday—a move whose implications appear to have mixed ramifications on issues surrounding the Middle East, according to foreign-policy experts. Saudi Arabia...
Qatari TV host Abd Al-Aziz Khazraj Al-Ansarai. Source: YouTube.

Qatari TV host claims Israelis stole from Dubai hotels

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Israeli media picked up a story reported by a Qatari TV host last week, claiming that Israelis had been caught stealing from hotels in the United Arab Emirates. The unverified report was uploaded to YouTube and...
Israel's Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef affixes a mezuzah to a doorpost of the newly built Jewish school in the United Arab Emirates while on his first trip to an Arab country, as Chabad Rabbi Levi Duchman of the UAE looks on, December 2020. Credit: Courtesy of the Dubai Jewish Community Center.

On UAE visit, Israel’s chief rabbi certifies new Jewish school, inspects kosher food

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During a visit this weekend to the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef inaugurated the first certified Jewish school in the Gulf states and invested Rabbi Levi Duchman as rabbi of the Emirati...
Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch and a delegation from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at a candle-lighting ceremony at the Kotel for the fifth night of Hanukkah, on Dec. 14, 2020. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

Bahraini, UAE delegation attends Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at Kotel

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A delegation from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took part in a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall on Monday night. Speaking at the event, Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch said,...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at opening a global forum on partnerships between governments and businesses to counter terrorism as part of the Group of Eight (G8) summit, July 15-17, 2006. Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons.

Russian foreign minister: ‘Our goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state’

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“Normalization between Israel and the Arab states does not mean a resolution to the Palestinian issue must become a second priority,” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a meeting with his United Arab...
The first-ever public Hanukkah menorah-lighting in the United Arab Emirates, led by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Duchman. (Credit: Yehuda Lavi/JCC of the UAE on Chabad.org.News)

For first time, Hanukkah lights brighten Arabian nights in UAE

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For the first time in history, a giant public menorah has been raised in the United Arab Emirates. The 12-foot metal menorah was designed and constructed locally and stands at the foot of the Burj Khalifa,...
Dubai’s Crossroads of Civilizations Museum event on Dec. 6, 2020. Credit: Mustafa Fardan.

Pre-Hanukkah Dubai event joins Jews and Arabs from Middle East, North Africa

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Amid the newly rebuilt “Abraham’s Tent,” Arabs and Mizrahi Jews joined together under one roof in Dubai—the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates—exploring the historic kinship of and future alliances between the...