“Interfaith relations, knowledge and understanding are an important vehicle for bringing peace.
“The organisation would like to ensure that religion is part of the solution and not the problem. Shechita and brit milah are fundamental issues.”
Israeli citizens are not allowed to visit Saudi Arabia and Rabbi Rosen said: “If a meeting were held in Saudi Arabia and I were not invited, I feel quite sure my Christian and Muslim colleagues would not go without me.”
The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s Rabbi Marc Schneier said the king had “created an interfaith project, something that was previously inconceivable. The journey of a Muslim-Jewish reconciliation has begun.”
