A rabbi has been murdered in the United Arab Emirates. Israel blames Iran and announces that its secret service, the Mossad, is opening an investigation into this murder and promises to bring those responsible to justice.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michel Paul
This is an act of “ heinous anti-Semitic terrorism », Says the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The body of Tzvi Kogan, missing since Thursday in the United Arab Emirates, where he was based, was found lifeless by the Emirati authorities, said the Prime Minister’s Office and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
No details were provided on where the body was found, nor on the circumstances of the murder or on the identity of the suspects.
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The alert was given at the start of the weekend after the disappearance of the rabbi, representing United Arab Emirates of the international ultraorthodox Chabad Lubavitch movement and also the boss of Rimon, the kosher supermarket in Dubai.
Mossad investigates
Israeli authorities recommend that Israelis avoid all non-essential travel to the United Arab Emirates.
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