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

Israeli authorities say the abduction and killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an act of antisemitic terrorism, but investigators have not yet stated a motive.

Emirati authorities said Monday three suspects from Uzbekistan were in custody over the murder of a rabbi, a rare violent incident involving an Israeli citizen in the UAE, which signed a peace agreement with Israel in 2020.

Kogan, 28, who worked in the UAE for the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad, which seeks to support Jewish life for thousands of Jewish visitors and residents in the Gulf Arab state, vanished in Dubai, where he ran a kosher grocery store, on Thursday.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Shliach in to Abu Dhabi, has been missing since Thursday, and Israel’s security services reportedly fear he was kidnapped or murdered. Please say Tehillim for Tzvi Ben Etel.

Israeli and Emirati authorities have confirmed the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary based in Abu Dhabi, whose body was discovered early Sunday. Kogan, a dual Israeli-Moldovan citizen, went missing on Thursday under circumstances Israeli officials have described as a terror attack motivated by antisemitism.

Officials in the United Arab Emirates said the 3 suspects in Zvi Kogan's death were from the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan.

Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.