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

Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.

A rabbi who disappeared in the United Arab Emirates was murdered in a "heinous antisemitic terror incident," according to Israel.Ultra-Orthodox rabbi Zvi Kogan, 28, was last seen on Dubai in Thursday and his body has now been located in the Emirati city of Al Ain - 81 miles away.

Zvi Kogan was targeted in an “act of antisemitic terrorism,” Israeli authorities said.

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

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.

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

The murder of Zvi Kogan is a criminal antisemitic terrorist incident. The State of Israel will act in all of its abilities to bring to justice the criminals responsible for his death,” the PM’s office said following news on Sunday that the rabbi's body had been found.

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