Tag: UAE
Rabbi, cantor hang mezuzah at Israel Diamond Exchange office in Dubai
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...
As Israel-UAE ties deepen, BDS advocates ‘give up’ on efforts to boycott Jewish state
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...
Biden to tap former ambassador to UAE to National Security Council
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...
Debate over Qatar: Is blockade-ending move positive for Middle East?
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 claims Israelis stole from Dubai hotels
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...
On UAE visit, Israel’s chief rabbi certifies new Jewish school, inspects kosher food
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...
Bahraini, UAE delegation attends Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at Kotel
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: ‘Our goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state’
“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...
For first time, Hanukkah lights brighten Arabian nights in UAE
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,...
Pre-Hanukkah Dubai event joins Jews and Arabs from Middle East, North Africa
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...