Israel says rabbi who went missing in the UAE was killed

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******* says ****** who went missing in the UAE was *******

TEL AVIV, ******* (AP) — ******* said Sunday that the body of an ********-Moldovan ******

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has been found after he was ******* in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic ******* incident.”

The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said ******* “will act with all means to seek justice with the ********** responsible for his ******.” There was no immediate comment from the UAE.

Zvi Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox ****** who went missing on Thursday, ran a Kosher grocery store in the futuristic city of Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries

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The agreement has held through more than a year of soaring regional tensions unleashed by

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. But *******’s devastating retaliatory offensive in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon, after months of fighting with the Hezbollah militant group, have stoked anger among Emiratis, ***** nationals and others living in the the UAE.

Iran, which supports ****** and Hezbollah, has also been threatening to retaliate against ******* after

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in response to an Iranian ballistic missile *******.

The Emirati government did not respond to a request for comment.

Early Sunday, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency acknowledged Kogan’s disappearance but pointedly did not acknowledge he held ******** citizenship, referring to him only as being Moldovan. The Emirati Interior Ministry described Kogan as being “missing and out of contact.”

“Specialized authorities immediately began search and investigation operations upon receiving the report,” the Interior Ministry said.

*******’s largely ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, condemned the ******** and thanked Emirati authorities for “their swift action.” He said he trusts they “will work tirelessly to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism based in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in New York City. It said he was last seen in Dubai. The UAE has a burgeoning ******* community, with

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and businesses catering to kosher diners.

The Rimon Market, a Kosher grocery store that Kogan managed on Dubai’s busy Al Wasl Road, was shut Sunday. As the wars have roiled the region, the store has been the target of online protests by supporters of the Palestinians. Mezuzahs on the front and the back doors of the market appeared to have been ripped off when an Associated Press journalist stopped by on Sunday.

Kogan’s wife, Rivky, is a U.S. citizen who lived with him in the UAE. She is the niece of ****** Gavriel Holtzberg, who was ******* in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The UAE is an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula and is also home to Abu Dhabi. Local ******* officials in the UAE declined to comment.

While the ******** statement did not mention Iran, Iranian intelligence services have carried out past kidnappings in the UAE.

Western officials believe Iran runs intelligence operations in the UAE and keeps tabs on the hundreds of thousands of Iranians living across the country.

Iran is suspected of kidnapping and later ******** British Iranian national Abbas Yazdi in Dubai in 2013, though Tehran has denied involvement. Iran also kidnapped Iranian ******* national Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 from Dubai, taking him back to Tehran,

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Gambrell reported from Dubai, ******* ***** Emirates

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