When I heard that a couple, a Haredi couple with a baby, had been chosen by WZO (the World Zionist Organization) to be emissaries in the United Arab Amirates, my curiosity was piqued. Not about the identity of the emissaries, but about to need for an emissary at all in a country that has a tiny Jewish community entirely made up of businessmen who have transplanted to the UAE. There are no actual local Jews (that I know of) to be reached out to. But for the few local transplants, plus more that might go to the UAE in the coming years, it seemed an emissary was deemed necessary.