3 Uzbek nationals arrested in the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the UAE

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says police have arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi. Monday’s statement from the country’s Interior Ministry offered no motive for the slaying of Zvi Kogan. Kogan, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a kosher grocery store in the futuristic city of Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords. The agreement has held through more than a year of soaring regional tensions unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. But Israel’s devastating retaliatory offensive in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon have stoked anger among Emiratis, Arab nationals and others living in the UAE.