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

Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism based in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood.

Israel says rabbi who went missing in Dubai has been found dead - Zvi Kogan killed in a ‘heinous antisemitic terror incident’, Israeli government says

Israel announced that United Arab Emirates authorities found the body of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, condemning his disappearance and death as "antisemitic terrorism."

The murder of Zvi Kogan is a criminal antisemitic terrorist incident. The State of Israel will act in all of its abilities to bring to justice the criminals responsible for his death,” the PM’s office said following news on Sunday that the rabbi's body had been found.

A missing Jewish community leader was found dead in the United Arab Emirates, Israel said on Sunday. Israeli-Moldovan citizen Zvi Kogan went missing from Dubai on Thursday afternoon, prompting an investigation by Israel’s Mossad spy agency after suspicions were raised that he was abducted in an act of terrorism.

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