The body of the Israeli-Moldovan rabbi found killed in the United Arab Emirates is being repatriated to Israel, where he will be buried, the Israeli organization Zaka, responsible for rescuing and collecting the remains of the dead, announced on Monday.
The funeral will take place this Monday around 11:00 p.m. local time (9:00 p.m. GMT) on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, said Chabad Lubavitch, the ultra-orthodox Hasidic movement for which Rabbi Tzvi Kogan worked.
On Sunday, authorities in the predominantly Muslim Gulf country said three suspects had been arrested after the rabbi’s killing, without giving details of their identities.
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Rabbi Tzvi Kogan was an emissary of Chabad Lubavitch, an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic movement with a global missionary commitment aimed at strengthening Jewish identity and bringing Jews closer to their faith.
The Chief Rabbi of the Emirates Elie Abadie expressed to AFP on Monday the “sadness and shock” of the Jewish community in this Gulf state, adding that the law must be applied with “all its rigor” against the perpetrators.
“This tragic and terrorist act of murder of an innocent Jew is an affront to the entire Jewish community and to peaceful coexistence in the UAE,” he said.
Even before the Emirates announced the arrest of the three suspects, the Israeli government denounced “a heinous act of anti-Semitic terrorism”. “Israel will use all means at its disposal to ensure that justice is done and that those responsible for his death are held accountable,” he said in a statement.
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