The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that found the body of Rabbi Zvi Kogan living in the United Arab Emirates, who had been missing since Thursday. According to a statement from the office Kogan was murdered and it was a “heinous anti-Semitic terrorist act”. TASR informs about it according to AP and Reuters reports.
“The State of Israel will act by all means to bring justice to the criminals responsible for his death,” the prime minister’s office said.
The rabbi had been missing since Thursday, with Israel confirming the information on Saturday night. His disappearance was previously reported by the Israeli media. Authorities assumed that Kogan had been kidnapped. The Israeli spy agency Mossad expressed suspicion that it was a terrorist act.
Kogan held Israeli-Moldovan citizenship and was a member of the Chabad branch in Abu Dhabi as of late 2020, when Israel normalized relations with the UAE. of one of the largest Hasidic Jewish organizations in the world, writes the news portal The Times of Israel (TOI).
