Israel's Sephardi chief rabbi visits UAE, inaugurates Jewish school
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, left, meets with Rabbi Levi Duchman in Dubai in December 2020. (Daniel Seal/Jewish Community Center of Dubai) Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef traveled to Dubai on Thursday in the first-ever visit by a sitting chief rabbi to an Arab country, his office said, in a sign of deepening ties between the Emirates and Israel. “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 ...
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