Binyamin Netanyahu has described the murder of a rabbi in the United Arab Emirates as an “abhorrent act of antisemitic terrorism”.
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of killing Zvi Kogan, 28, a dual Israeli-Moldovan citizen and an envoy of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who went missing on Thursday, according to UAE’s state news agency said. His disappearance prompted an investigation by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and Emirati authorities.
The movement, a prominent branch of Judaism based in New York, said Kogan was last seen in Dubai.
He ran a kosher grocery in the city to which Israelis have flocked for work and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham accords. Kogan’s shop, the Rimon Market, was shut