Haim Weizman
Haim WeizmanYehonatan Gottlieb

Syrian entrepreneurs selling apartments to investors in Dubai have closed a deal with businessman Haim Weizman - and when they discovered that he is Jewish, they decided to donate a synagogue to his real estate project.

"I made a deal of a lifetime here, I think," Weizman said in a conversation with Arutz Sheva. "When they heard that I'm Israeli, we made a deal that they would engrave the Star of David and give me this synagogue, here inside the 180-unit residential building.

"This is a synagogue that they donated to me," he stressed. "Syrians donated a synagogue to Israelis in Dubai. Nothing like this has ever happened before!"

The building is being constructed by the Israeli-French businessman Haim Weizman in Dubai, who decided, in the wake of the Abraham Accords, to plan a residential building that would be adapted to Jewish community life.

The building will have a Shabbat elevator, a kosher restaurant, a synagogue - and now Weizman says that his next goal is for the building to house a mikveh too.

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