Dubai rabbi Zvi Kogan killed in ‘heinous terror incident’ says Israel

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Dubai ****** Zvi Kogan ******* in ‘heinous ******* incident’ says *******

******* has pledged to bring to justice those responsible for the ******* of a prominent ****** in the ******* ***** Emirates, denouncing his ******** as a “heinous antisemitic ********** act”.

Zvi Kogan, who ran a Kosher shop in Dubai and worked for the Orthodox ******* group Chabad, vanished in Dubai on Thursday.

The 28-year-old’s body was found in the city of Al Ain, which borders Oman, though it is not clear if he was ******* there or elsewhere.

The UAE’s interior ministry said three suspects had been arrested, but gave no details.

His disappearance came as Iran, which supports ****** and Hezbollah, had been threatening to retaliate after a wave of airstrikes ******* carried out in October in response to an Iranian ballistic missile *******.

The Iranian embassy in the UAE said it “categorically rejects the allegations of Iran’s involvement in the ******* of this individual”.

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office called Kogan’s ****** a “heinous antisemitic ******* incident” and said ******* “will act with all means to seek justice with the ********** responsible for his ******”.

Kogan had entered the UAE on his Moldovan passport and was a resident in Dubai, said the UAE statement. His wife, Rivky, is a US citizen who lived with him in the UAE. She is the niece of ****** Gavriel Holtzberg, who was ******* in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

******** PM Benjamin Netanyahu (EPA)

The Chabad movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of Orthodox Judaism, is based in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighbourhood in New York.

Jews have grown more visible in the UAE since 2020 when the country became the most prominent ***** state in 30 years to establish formal ties with ******* under a US-brokered agreement dubbed the Abraham Accords. Ties have been maintained during the 13-month *******-****** war in Gaza.

However, informal synagogues in Dubai were closed after ******’ 7 October ********, with Jews instead gathering to pray at home amid heightened security concerns. A single government-approved synagogue ******** open, in Abu Dhabi.

Kogan’s shop was shuttered on Sunday. Outside, ******** Druze politician Ayoob Kara said the UAE’s ******* community was in “shock” at the news of Kogan’s *******, but that Israelis and Jews would still visit and build ties in the Gulf country.

“I am sure that lots of ******* [people] will continue to invest here. No way to stop this relationship and this cooperation,” said Mr Kara.

Ayoob Kara outside the Rimon Market kosher store which was managed by Zvi Kogan (Reuters)

Kogan’s body will be repatriated to ******* “hopefully” on Monday, an ******** foreign ministry official said.

Although *******’s public statements on Sunday did not mention Iran, 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, although Tehran has denied involvement. Iran also kidnapped Iranian ******* national Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 from Dubai, taking him back to Tehran, where he was ********* in October.

Additional reporting from Associated Press and Reuters

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