Shafaq News/A United Arab Emirates court sentenced three people to death for the killing ofIsraeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan, state media reported on Monday.
Thestate-run WAM news agency said the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals’ StateSecurity Chamber also handed a life sentence to a fourth defendant accused ofaiding the crime. It did not disclose the identities of those convicted, butthree Uzbek nationals had been arrested in Turkiye and extradited to the UAE inconnection with the case.
“Thedefendants had tracked and murdered the victim,” WAM reported, citing StateSecurity Prosecution evidence that included confessions, forensic reports,post-mortem examination findings, and witness testimonies.
Kogan, 28,an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, had lived in the UAE for several years and representedthe Chabad movement, a global Orthodox Jewish group. He was reported missing inNovember, and his body was found days later in Al Ain, near the Omani border.
Authoritieshave not provided a motive for the killing, which occurred amid theIsrael-Hamas war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's officecondemned the killing as an "antisemitic terrorist act."
Diplomaticties between Israel and the UAE, established under the 2020 Abraham Accords,have remained intact despite strains caused by the war. Israel maintains anembassy in Abu Dhabi and a consulate in Dubai, where Kogan ran a kosher grocerystore.
While notdirectly accusing Iran, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have linkedKogan’s killing to an "axis of evil," a term Israel has previouslyused to refer to Iran and its allies. The UAE has not made such allegations,and Iran’s embassy in Abu Dhabi has denied any involvement.
The UAE hasa growing Jewish community, with synagogues and kosher businesses emergingsince it normalized relations with Israel. Kogan was buried in Israel.
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