Rabbi Zvi Kogan during his service in the IDF’s Givati Brigade (www.ynetnews.com)
Israeli Rabbi Zvi Kogan who works as an emissary to the Chabad chapter in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, has been reportedly missing since November 21.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement on November 23 confirming Kogan’s disappearance and said that authorities were treating the incident as a suspected act of terrorism.
The Mossad intelligence agency had launched an “extensive” investigation into the incident alongside Emirati authorities, the office added.
Meanwhile a statement from the UAE Interior Ministry said Abu Dhabi was “implementing extensive measures in its search for” Rabbi Kogan, without mentioning his Israeli citizenship.
Ynet cited Israeli security officials as saying there was growing suspicion Kogan was murdered. The Israeli news website reported that Kogan’s car was found abandoned in Al Ain, around 150 kilometers from away Abu Dhabi, where Kogan is based.
The website added, without citing sources, that officials suspect a number of Uzbek citizens directed by Iran assaulted the rabbi and later fled to Turkey.
Kogan, a dual Israeli-Moldovan citizen, had served in the Givati Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces. He is a close aide to Rabbi Levi Duchman, the chief rabbi of the Jewish community in the UAE and managed the kosher grocery store Rimon in Dubai where he was filmed just days before he was last seen.
The UAE became the most prominent Arab state in 30 years to establish formal ties with Israel under an agreement brokered by the United States in 2020, dubbed the Abraham Accords.
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 44,000 Palestinains, didn’t affect the relationship between the two countries. However, Israel had warned its citizens against traveling to the UAE amid reports of Iranian efforts to target Israelis and Jews around the world.
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he is with his creator now.
hopefully ended up getting his cojones tickled and playing pin the tail on the donkey with new found “friends” in the back blocks of iraq or iran somewhere. that’s after the chip’s been excised, minus anaesthesia, gaza style.
by the metric used by israel, presumably the kidnapping of the lebanese ship captain is an act of terrorism?
the world is increasingly unsafe for zionists. better get them nose jobs and name changes soon. that’s what happens when you partake in depravity and genocide
probably just staged abduction just like all the other bogus claims that turn out to be self perpetrated.