Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found. The U.A.E.'s Interior Ministry later said authorities arrested three perpetrators involved in the killing of Zvi Kogan.

The Israeli authorities called the killing of the rabbi, Zvi Kogan, an act of terrorism. He had been missing since Thursday.

An Israeli citizen missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found dead, Israeli authorities said on Sunday, in what they described as an “antisemitic terrorist act.”

Israel’s Mossad spy agency is investigating the disappearance of a rabbi in the United Arab Emirates earlier this week, saying on Saturday that it suspects terrorism might have played a role. Israeli-Moldovan citizen Zvi Kogan went missing on Thursday afternoon,