The new Ben-Gurion-Dubai route is extremely popular with Israelis – gourmet kosher dining and excellent lounge and in-flight options. Now the airline is doubling its service to the UAE.
The gleaming new industrial kitchen on the grounds of one the Arab world’s busiest airport wouldn’t be remarkable except for one fact: it’s kosher.
Kosher Arabia at Dubai World Central (DWC) airport is a registered producer of kosher food in the United Arab Emirates, set up in partnership with Emirates Flight Catering and CCL Holdings.
Inside the 20,000 square-foot facility, a team of just 20 chefs none of whom are Jewish work to prepare a variety of innovative kosher meals. Hailing from New Zealand, Syria, Morocco, Egypt, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, the chefs work in unison in Kosher Arabia’s sleek kitchens, moving between variously sized pots and pans, sizzling and simmering with different parts of a variety of meals.
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A new kosher kitchen being run in partnership with Emirates could help the UAE become a major global exporter of the food.
Kosher Arabia will produce more than 2,000 meals a day from a 1,858-square-metre kitchen
in Dubai.
It will focus on airline catering for Emirates and other airlines, as well as for hotels and events.
This country could actually be a centre exporting premium kosher food to the rest of the region and the world
Ross Kriel, CCL Holdings
Ross Kriel, the chief executive of CCL Holdings, which is working with Emirates Flight Catering to open and operate the kitchen, said the idea was a dream that has been in the planning for years.
Kosher Arabia opens production facility in Dubai The Media Line Staff 04/15/2021
Kosher Arabia, the kosher food production line for United Arab Emirates’ national carrier Emirates, inaugurated a state-of-the-art catering facility in Dubai.
Kosher Arabia, which dedicated the facility on Monday with a ceremony that included affixing a mezuzah, a Jewish ritual object containing a parchment inscribed with Biblical verses, was set up following the signing of the Abraham Accords in September as a partnership with Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world’s largest catering operations serving more than 100 airlines.
The kosher catering service was set up in anticipation of the opening of Emirates’ opening a Tel Aviv-Dubai route, which was launched in February. Kosher Arabia also has been supplying freshly prepared kosher meals for the massive UAE Expo 2020.