The first Jew to blow a chofar in the Emirates

Israeli media and official social media accounts published a video clip of the first Jewish rabbi in the United Arab Emirates, Yehuda Sarna, blowing a Jewish trumpet (the shofar) on the occasion of the Hebrew New Year, while the towering skyscrapers of Dubai appear behind of the.

The “Times of Israel” newspaper described the video as an “appropriate gesture” that occurred at the end of a week that saw the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and the Gulf state.

The Jews begin their celebration of the New Year by performing prayers and then blowing the shofar, which is a kind of trumpet made with the horn of a ram, as it symbolizes the story of the prophet Abraham and the redemption of his son Isaac, according to the Jewish narrative. .

According to the Israeli newspaper, recent weeks have seen the rise of members of the UAE’s Jewish community, believed to number between two and three thousand, while their leaders praised the new friendship between the two countries.

Sarna, as well as the head of the Jewish Council in the Emirates, Ross Creel, were among the many representatives of the community who traveled to Washington to attend the historic signing ceremony of the Abrahamic Agreement, under which Israel established relations with the Emirates and signed a peace support agreement with Bahrain, under the auspices of US President Donald Trump.