Israel has pledged to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of a prominent rabbi in the United Arab Emirates, denouncing his killing as a “heinous antisemitic terrorist act”. Zvi Kogan, who ran a Kosher shop in Dubai and worked for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, vanished in Dubai on Thursday.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli envoy of the Chabad Lubavitch organization, was found dead in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli authorities called it an antisemitic terror attack. Kogan, who had been missing since Thursday,

Mossad and authorities in the Gulf country had opened an investigation into Kogan's disappearance believing it may be related to “a terrorist incident.”