ALBAWABA - Shortly following the killing of Israeli-Moldovan Rabbi Zvi Kogan, some Israeli accounts on social media accused Iran of being behind it.Isra

Ephraim Mirvis wrote on Sunday that "no act of evil will deter us from uniting against the forces of darkness that seek to divide us."

Israel has pledged to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of a prominent rabbi in the United Arab Emirates, denouncing his killing as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act”. Zvi Kogan, who ran a Kosher shop in Dubai and worked for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, vanished in Dubai on Thursday.

The ambassador emphasized that the UAE stands for peaceful coexistence and rejects extremism. "In the UAE, we welcome everyone. We embrace peaceful coexistence. We reject extremism and fanaticism," he added. Al Otaiba vowed that the UAE would honor Kogan's memory by continuing to uphold its values of diversity and peace.

The Israeli authorities called the killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan an act of terrorism. The Emirati government said it had arrested three people in connection with the murder.

Mossad and authorities in the Gulf country had opened an investigation into Kogan's disappearance believing it may be related to “a terrorist incident.”

Rabbi Zvi Kogan's murder in the UAE provokes condemnation from the U.S., highlighting it as an attack on peace and tolerance. The U.S. is collaborating with UAE and Israeli authorities to ensure justice.

The UAE’s Interior Ministry said authorities arrested three suspects involved in the killing of Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli envoy of the Chabad Lubavitch organization, was found dead in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli authorities called it an antisemitic terror attack. Kogan, who had been missing since Thursday,

Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found, the Israeli government has announced. Israel said the rabbi had been killed in what they referred to as a "heinous antisemitic terror incident".