Iran rejects allegations it was involved in the killing; US condemns 'horrific crime against those who stand for peace'; body of Israeli-Moldovan set to be flown to Israel for burial

ALBAWABA - Israeli Rabbi Zvi Kogan lost contact with his family on Thursday, November 21, 2024, and was missing for three days before his body was found

Authorities in the UAE have apprehended three people in connection with the death of Israeli Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was reportedly killed in what Israel describes as an 'antisemitic act of terror.

Kogan, 28, who worked in the UAE for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, which seeks to support Jewish life for thousands of Jewish visitors and residents in the Gulf Arab state, vanished in Dubai, where he ran a kosher grocery store, on Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates says police have arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

Israeli intelligence is investigating the disappearance of Israeli-Moldovan citizen Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates in what is being called a "terrorist incident."

The United Arab Emirates announced the arrest of 3 suspects in the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad Shliach who was abducted on Thursday. "Full details of the incident will be disclosed upon the conclusion of the investigations,

Rabbi Zvi Kogan's body was found after police investigated his disappearance in the UAE. Numerous members of Israel’s Knesset expressed feelings of sadness, horror, and anger at the news of Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan’s murder in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday morning.

The United Arab Emirates' interior ministry said on Monday that the suspects arrested in the alleged killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan were from Uzbekistan, the state news agency WAM reported.

Ari Katz, a friend of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was murdered in the United Arab Emirates, tells Arutz Sheva – Israel National about the tense days surrounding Rabbi Zvi's disappearance.