The small Jewish community in Dubai founded the first synagogue in the city. Bloomberg News reported.
The community includes Jewish citizens of other countries who deal in finance, law, energy, and diamonds. Three years ago they rented a villa in a quiet residential area where they used to pray.
The building also has a kosher kitchen and a few bedrooms for guests and community members who do not drive on Shabbat.
Eli Epstein, a New York resident who helped build the synagogue and donated a Torah scroll, said: "We have come a long way since I started traveling to Dubai 30 years ago, and I was told to try and avoid using my surname because it sounds too Jewish."
Despite the improvement in the situation, the members of the synagogue asked not to reveal the location of the synagogue.
Bloomberg reported that the regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a part, now see Iran as a greater danger than Israel. The establishment of the synagogue and the publication of its existence are related to the publication of the warming of relations between Israel and the EU and Saudi Arabia.