Israel reveals the Jewish community celebration in Dubai of the Jewish Hanukkah festival

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that those whom it described as members of the Jewish community in the Emirate of Dubai in the Emirates yesterday lit the eighth and final candle for the Jewish Day of Chanukah, and this comes after Israel received an official congratulation from the Emirates on that occasion.

And the Israel account in Arabic posted on the Twitter account of the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it shows the Jewish menorah and behind it the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and Israel’s account in the Gulf also repeated the same tweet.

Earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had received congratulations from the UAE on the occasion of the Jewish "Hanukkah" holiday, despite the absence of public diplomatic relations between the two countries.

"Among the many beautiful congratulations that we received on the occasion of the Hanukkah holiday, we were pleased to receive congratulations from the UAE embassies in the world," the Israel Foreign Ministry’s Twitter page on Israel, quoting the ministry’s director general, Yuval Rotem, said.

"We value these warm messages, and we hope that relations between Israel and the UAE will see further growth in 2020," Rotem added.

Before that, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised a tweet by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed on Twitter in which he referred to an article he spoke about the Arab-Israeli rapprochement recently, and Netanyahu welcomed in his statements on Saturday what he called "the rapprochement between Tel Aviv and a lot of Arab countries".

It is mentioned that the Jews celebrate "Hanukkah" for a period of 8 days starting from the twenty-fifth of the month of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, and the date according to the Gregorian calendar ranges between the last week of November and the last week of December, and the Jews refrain from mourning and expressing Sorrow.