years traveling before settling in Cairo, where Maimonides lived for the rest of his life, teaching and writing about Judaism. He died in Cairo in 1204. The opening ceremony of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue was attended by members of the Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, as well as government officials and other religious leaders. Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, the chief rabbi of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue, opened the event and cantor Alex Peterfreund led the congregants through a series of verses. Sarna then invited Rabbi Levi Duchman, the first resident rabbi of the United Arab Emirates and head of Chabad in the UAE, to recite a Jewish prayer in Hebrew for the leaders and government of the UAE. The same prayer was also delivered in Arabic by Rabbi Yosef Hamdi, the leader of the small Jewish Yemenite community in Abu Dhabi that was rescued two years ago by the Emirati government. See also Abrahamic Family House Document on Human Fraternity External links Official website References Abrahamic Family House History of the Jews in the Arabian Peninsula Jews and Judaism in the United Arab Emirates