Moldovan national goes missing in UAE; Israel launches investigation | World News

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Saturday that an investigation has been launched into the disappearance of a dual Israeli-Moldova national who lives in the United Arab Emirates and has been missing since Thursday.

The agency said in a statement that authorities in the Gulf had launched an investigation based on information that the man’s disappearance was related to a “terrorist incident”, without providing further details.

The missing man is Zvi Kogan, the UAE representative for Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish organization with chapters around the world and seeking to forge connections with unaffiliated secular Jews and other sects of Judaism. Identified.

Chabad’s U.S. world headquarters said in a statement that Rabbi Kogan, the organization’s president in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), went missing in Dubai on Thursday.

The UAE state news agency said the interior ministry was searching for the missing man and investigating the circumstances of his disappearance, but did not mention his Israeli nationality.

Chabad UAE declined to comment.

According to the organization’s website, its branch in the United Arab Emirates provides religious and social services to Jews throughout the Gulf region and serves thousands of Jewish visitors and residents of the country. We are supporting.

In 2020, the UAE became the most prominent Arab state in three decades to establish formal relations with Israel under a US-brokered agreement known as the Abraham Accords. They have maintained ties even during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

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