The New York Times faced intense backlash on social media over a headline about Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was murdered after he was abducted in Dubai last week.

For an image-conscious country that prides itself as a major tourist hub and destination, the apparent terrorist murder of Chabad emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan thrust the United Arab Emirates into international headlines for all the wrong reasons on Sunday.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan HY”D, an emissary of the movement launched by the Lubavicher Rebbe, was only 28, but he was at the cutting edge of making it possible

The suspects, Olimpi Toirovich, 28, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, also 28, and Azizbek Kamlovich, 33, could face the death penalty.

Ephraim Mirvis wrote on Sunday that "no act of evil will deter us from uniting against the forces of darkness that seek to divide us."

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,

The Ministry of Interior has identified three men arrested on Sunday in connection with the alleged murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE. The suspects were named as Olimpi Tohirovic, Mahmoud John Abdel Rahim,