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Thursday, April 17, 2025
Daughter is born to Chabad rabbi Zvi Kogan, 5 months after his murder in UAE
Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent.
A daughter has been born in recent days to Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan Chabad emissary who was murdered in November in the United Arab Emirates.
Rivky Kogan gave birth to a baby girl five months after Kogan, who was working to expand Jewish life in Abu Dhabi, was murdered by three Uzbek terrorists, according to the COLlive website, which reports on the Chabad community.
Kogan’s body was found in late November in the Emirati city of Al Ain after he had been reported missing several days earlier.
Friends and colleagues of the 28-year-old rabbi spoke fondly of him as a selfless leader who lived to help others.
Last month, the three murder suspects were sentenced to death in an Abu Dhabi court.
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