A Rabbi Is Murdered at Dubai

Rabbi Zvi Kogan HY”D, an emissary of the movement launched by the Lubavicher Rebbe, was only 28, but he was at the cutting edge of making it possible for Jews to live in a post-war Middle East.

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Hasidic leaders pray at the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Montefiore Cemetery at New York, 2019. AP/Jessie Wardarski

The murder at Dubai of an Israeli rabbi representing the Chabad community of Orthodox Jewry is a heartbreaking development. The rabbi, Zvi Kogan, had been missing since Thursday, and his body was recovered Sunday. Emirati authorities said that they have arrested three persons and, according to Reuters, vowed that the government would use “all legal powers to respond decisively.” Prime Minister Netanyahu calls it an “antisemitic terrorist attack.”

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