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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. .
A Jewish rabbi plays the trumpet in Dubai
The rabbi of the Jewish community of the United Arab Emirates blows the Jewish trumpet (the shofar) in Dubai on the occasion of the Jewish New Year
Posted by Israel Speaks Arabic on Friday 18 September 2020
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 community representatives who traveled to Washington to attend the historic signing ceremony of the Ibrahim Agreement, under which Israel established relations with the UAE and signed a peace support agreement with Bahrain, under the auspices of US President Donald Trump. .
Trump said: “After decades of divisions and conflicts, we are witnessing the dawn of a new Middle East,” emphasizing that “five or six” additional Arab countries will follow suit “very soon” without naming them.
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Later, Trump hoped that Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel “at the appropriate time.”
In response to a journalist’s question about whether he expected Saudi Arabia to join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the president of the United States replied: “Yes. I have spoken with the Saudi monarch,” and the kingdom will join “in the appropriate time”.
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Following the conclusion of the peace agreement between the UAE and Israel, “King Salman is angry,” as the newspaper described, the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister affirmed Saudi Arabia’s commitment to establish a Palestinian state, without making reference to the recent peace agreement.
He added: “I think seven, eight or nine additional countries” will sign similar standardization agreements with Israel, “including the big (countries).
In turn, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the signing of the Abraham Agreement as a “historic turning point” and that “it could end the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
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