Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi

  UAE says three Uzbeks arrested over Israeli-Moldovan rabbi's murder

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Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch organisation in Abu Dhabi

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi and said they were working to determine a motive.

The interior ministry published photos of three blindfolded men whom it named as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim and Azizbek Kamilovich.

The body of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a 28-year-old emissary for the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad Lubavitch in Abu Dhabi, was found on Sunday, three days after he had disappeared.

Israel condemned the killing as an “abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack” and vowed to track down those responsible. Moldova also called it an “act of antisemitism”.

The UAE’s ambassador to the US said it was a crime against the Gulf Arab state, which established full diplomatic and trade relations with Israel in 2020.

Rabbi Kogan's funeral is expected to take place at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Monday evening, after an Israeli religious organisation that collects remains of the dead for burial said a plane carrying his body had left the UAE.

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