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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Ross Kriel

Illustrative; Rabbi Yaakov Eisenstein (R) supervises the preparation of food Elli's Kosher Kitchen, in Dubai, on October 5, 2020 (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
October 17, 2020, 1:06 pm
‘The main challenge is obtaining ingredients’: UAE gets ready to go kosher
Dubai restaurants embrace technology to allow supervision — stoves can be turned on by a rabbi remotely using a mobile application and the cooking monitored by cameras
By Shatha YAISH
New York Rabbi Elie Abadi (YouTube screenshot)
October 16, 2020, 3:26 pm
Small but growing, UAE’s Jewish community to get second full-time rabbi from NY
Beirut-born Elie Abadie, a prominent scholar of Sephardic Judaism, to relocate to Dubai by November 1, as Emirati community expects to expand following Abraham Accords
By Raphael Ahren
UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs Shamma Al Mazrui addressing the Jewish Community of the Emirates' weekly pre-Shabbat Zoom meeting, September 26, 2020 (screen grab)
September 29, 2020, 2:15 pm
In Zoom meeting with local Jews, UAE minister hails ‘wisdom of Shabbat’
Minister of State Shamma Al Mazrui notes similarities between Islam and Judaism, calls herself a ‘new student of the Jewish tradition and wisdom, your values, your ethics’
By Raphael Ahren
Yehuda Sarna, Chief Rabbi of the United Arab Emirates, blows the shofar in Dubai, September 18, 2020 (video screenshot)
September 19, 2020, 4:54 pm
UAE’s chief rabbi blows shofar in Dubai in new video
Yehuda Sarna’s clip is a fitting gesture at the end of a historic week that saw Abu Dhabi formalize relations with Israel, bolster ties to its own Jewish community
By ToI Staff
Ross Kriel, left, and Emirates Flight Catering CEO Saeed Mohammed signing an MOU about cooperating on kosher meals produced locally, Abu Dhabi, September 17, 2020 (courtesy Emirates)
September 17, 2020, 3:31 pm
Pie in the sky: Emirates airline to serve up its own kosher food
Items produced at special production facility will have certification from the US-based Orthodox Union; move apparently intended to turn the Gulf city into a hub for Jewish travel
By Raphael Ahren
From left to right: Jewish leaders Rabbi Bruce Lustig, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Eric Fingerhut and Ross Kriel, at the White House peace ceremony, September 15, 2020 (courtesy)
September 15, 2020, 10:55 pm
At White House ceremony, UAE Jews hail treaties as ‘epoch-making’
Representatives of country’s two rival Dubai congregations fete ‘great momentum for peace in the world’; head of Bahrain’s Jewish community hosted by senior adviser to King Hamad
By Raphael Ahren
Kosher food, prepared by Baker and Spice, that was served to a delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations visiting Abu Dhabi in February 2018. It was certified as kosher by the South African UOS (courtesy)
September 9, 2020, 2:48 pm
Gefilte in the Gulf? Abu Dhabi tells all its hotels to offer kosher food
Anticipating influx of Jewish tourists, city instructs its many hotels to offer kosher items on all menus and bars, ‘designate an area in all kitchens for Kosher food preparation’
By Raphael Ahren
A view of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
September 5, 2020, 8:56 am
Ahead of expected influx of Israeli tourists, UAE hotel group offers kosher food
Habtoor Hospitality announces joint venture with Jewish caterer to provide OU Kosher food to guests
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Jewish minyan organized at the hotel of the Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 1, 2020. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
September 1, 2020, 9:00 am
Israeli delegation and local Jews hold Jewish minyan in Abu Dhabi
‘We’ve waited for you for a long time,’ community head Ross Kriel tells National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, as shofar is blown and prayer is recited for UAE’s armed forces
By Raphael Ahren
The traveling Israeli and US press is shown around the Louvre Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020 (Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi)
September 1, 2020, 12:46 am
A kosher banquet and a paradigm change: UAE signals this will be a warm peace
Following our historic nonstop flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, the Emirati authorities are going out of their way to make their Israeli guests feel wanted
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with leaders of the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, August 20, 2020 (PMO)
August 21, 2020, 10:31 am
Netanyahu tells UAE Jews he hopes to visit them this year
Hailing start of ‘historic’ new era, premier says peace between nations will be good for all people of the region
By ToI Staff
President of UAE's Jewish community Ross Kriel (courtesy)
August 13, 2020, 11:53 pm
UAE Jewish community celebrates peace with Israel, excited about direct flights
‘This will allow Israelis to visit the UAE and share our daily experience of tolerance and pluralism,’ cheers community leader Ross Kriel
By Raphael Ahren
A Jewish man originally from Yemen embraces a family member from whom he had been separated for 15 years, Abu Dhabi, UAE, August 2020. (Twitter)
August 9, 2020, 1:33 pm
UAE helps reunite Yemenite Jewish family that was separated for 15 years
‘My soul felt reborn,’ one relative says at Abu Dhabi airport ceremony; tweeting about reunion, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed hails his country as ‘homeland of coexistence’
By Raphael Ahren
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