Israel said on Sunday that a rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been murdered in what is believed to have been a targeted killing. Zvi Kogan, who ran a kosher supermarket in Dubai,

A missing Jewish community leader was found dead in the United Arab Emirates, Israel said on Sunday. Israeli-Moldovan citizen Zvi Kogan went missing from Dubai on Thursday afternoon, prompting an investigation by Israel’s Mossad spy agency after suspicions were raised that he was abducted in an act of terrorism.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are investigating the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual national in the UAE. Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, has been missing since Thursday, the Israeli prime minister's office said.