Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef visited the United Arab Emirates this weekend. The rabbi traveled to the Emirates on Thursday and spent the Sabbath there, coming back on Sunday. He visited both Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the first-ever visit by a sitting chief rabbi to an Arab country.
Yosef was hosted by the small Jewish community in Dubai. Prior to his visit, the community said in a statement, “During his visit, he will meet with senior Emirati officials, inaugurate the newly certified Jewish [nursery] school and, in a special ceremony, invest Rabbi Levi Duchman as rabbi of the Emirati Jewish community.”
