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UAE confirms sentencing killers of Chabad rabbi to death
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Zvi Kogan, a Chabad rabbi who was murdered in the UAE in November 2024. (Screenshot: @DUDIKEPLER via Reuters)
The United Arab Emirates confirms that three people have been sentenced to death for the murder of Chabad Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was killed in November in the Gulf country, state news agency WAM reported.
A fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the killing of Kogan.
Israeli sources in the Gulf state told Hebrew-language media yesterday that the sentences had been handed out to Uzbek nationals.
Kogan, a 28-year-old UAE-based rabbi with Israeli and Moldovan citizenship, went missing in Dubai in November 2024. His body was found a few days later in the Emirati city of Al Ain, which borders Oman.
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