UAE arrests three suspects in connection with Israeli rabbi's killing
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The United Arab Emirates said Sunday it arrested three people for the murder of an Israeli rabbi, which Israel has condemned as an anti-Semitic "terrorist attack".
"The Ministry of Interior announced that the UAE authorities have arrested in record time the three perpetrators involved in the murder" of Tzvi Kogan, a statement carried by the official WAM news agency said.
The ministry described Kogan as "a Moldovan national according to his identification documents at the time of entry into the UAE, where he lived as a resident".
The 28-year-old's body had been found by security services in the Gulf Arab state, the Israeli prime minister's office and the foreign ministry said earlier Sunday.
UAE normalised relations with Israel in 2020 alongside Bahrain and Morocco.
The Israeli-Moldovan national was living and working in the UAE as a representative of the Chabad Hasidic movement, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group known for its outreach efforts worldwide.
"This murder was carried out in the UAE. The murder of an Israeli citizen and a Chabad emissary, is an abhorrent anti-Semitic terrorist attack," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
Neither Emirati nor Israeli officials provided any details about the circumstances of Kogan's murder.