Al Hurra’s Interview with Rabbi Marc Schneier

In January 2019, FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier was invited to the Human Fraternity conference in Pope Francis’ honor in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While he was there, Rabbi Schneier spoke with Al Hurra قناة الحرة about how he had heard from Emirati leaders that relations with Israel were around the corner.

The “overriding consensus” among ranking ministers in the United Arab Emirates is that relations with Israel are “around the corner,” US Rabbi Marc Schneier told Al Hurra TV.

Speaking with Al Hurra’s Correspondent Moustafa Soukal from Abu Dhabi where he was one of dozens of religious leaders whom Pope Francis addressed at an interfaith gathering on the second day of the pope’s three-day historic visit to the Gulf state, Rabbi Schneier said he sat with a number of UAE ministers who said they were “looking forward” to ties with Israel, and that it was “not a question of if, but a question of when.”

The following year, the UAE established relations with Israel.