The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced the arrests of three Uzbek nationals in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, an attack that raised alarm over the safety of the small Jewish community in the country. A statement from the U.A.E.’s interior ministry named the suspects in the abduction and death of Zvi Kogan as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, both 28, and Azizbek Kamilovich, 33. and included photos of them blindfolded and handcuffed. Emirati authorities said they were still working to uncover the circumstances and motives of the crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the murder “an abhorrent antisemitic terrorist attack.”Image Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi whose body was found on Sunday, was part of the small Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli news outlets have reported that his car was found abandoned in Al Ain, a city in the adjacent emirate of Abu Dhabi, on the border with Oman.

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Persons: Zvi Kogan, Olimboy, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim, Azizbek Kamilovich, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rabbi Kogan Organizations: United, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Moldovan, Credit, UGC Locations: United Arab, Israeli, Dubai, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Oman