The Israeli authorities called the killing of the rabbi, Zvi Kogan, an act of terrorism. He had been missing since Thursday.

An Israeli rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found murdered, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday, denouncing his death as a "heinous antisemitic terrorist act".

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who worked in the UAE for Chabad, was found murdered, prompting Israel to condemn the act as an antisemitic terrorist attack. The incident has led to renewed travel warnings to the UAE for Israelis.

Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism based in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood.

Israel announced that United Arab Emirates authorities found the body of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, condemning his disappearance and death as "antisemitic terrorism."

A missing Jewish community leader was found dead in the United Arab Emirates, Israel said on Sunday. Israeli-Moldovan citizen Zvi Kogan went missing from Dubai on Thursday afternoon, prompting an investigation by Israel’s Mossad spy agency after suspicions were raised that he was abducted in an act of terrorism.

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