Zvi Kogan, the Israeli-Moldavian rabbi who went missing since Thursday in Abu Dhabi, where he had been since Israel normalized ties with the United Arab Emirates in late 2020, has been found dead.
An act of "anti-Semitic terrorism," Israel calls it. "Israel will use all necessary means and will bring justice to the kidnappers and murderers of the rabbi in the United Arab Emirates and their instigators," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening of the cabinet meeting. "The murder of an Israeli citizen, a representative of the Chabad Jewish community, is an anti-Semitic and evil terrorist act," the prime minister said. "I highly appreciate the cooperation with the Emirates in the investigation of the murder. We will strengthen ties between us, precisely in response to the attempts of the axis of evil to damage peaceful relations."
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also called the killing a “cowardly and despicable anti-Semitic terrorist crime.” “The State of Israel will not rest or remain silent until those responsible for this criminal act pay for their actions,” he said in a statement reported by the Times of Israel.
Zvi Kogan was related to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg , who was murdered along with his wife in a terrorist attack on the Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai in 2008, Channel 12 news reported.
(Unioneonline/D)
