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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.
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