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The United Arab Emirates named three Uzbek nationals as suspects in the killing of a Jewish community leader in the Gulf state, a murder that has raised concerns about security for Jews in the Arab world.

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

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Three suspects held in the United Arab Emirates over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi are from Uzbekistan, authorities in the Gulf state announced Monday, saying they were working to determine their motives.

The United Arab Emirates says police have arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi

The United Arab Emirates said three people arrested for the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the Gulf country are from Uzbekistan.

United Arab Emirates says police have arrested 3 Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

The United Arab Emirates' interior ministry said on Monday that the suspects arrested in the alleged killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan were from Uzbekistan, the state news agency WAM reported.

Three people have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates in connection with the alleged murder of an Israeli citizen, the Emirati interior ministry said on Sunday.The ministry statement did not give details on the suspects or say if they had been charged,

Emirati authorities arrested three people over an Israeli rabbi’s death, an incident that threatened gradually improving relations between the Gulf and Israel. Zvi Kogan — who ran a kosher grocery store in Dubai — was confirmed dead on Sunday in what Israel labeled an “ antisemitic act of terror .