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Global News Podcast

Arrests made in UAE after body of missing rabbi found

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The authorities in the United Arab Emirates say three suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, Zvi Kogan, found dead in the country.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.6

I'm Bernadette Keough, and in the early hours of Monday the 25th of November, these are our main stories.

0:10.8

The authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they've arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi.

0:18.4

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0:22.3

Prime Minister Imran Khan on the outskirts of the capital Islamabad. Exit polls from the first

0:28.8

round of Romania's presidential election suggests the radical nationalist Kalin Georgescu

0:34.3

has edged ahead of the Social Democrat Prime Minister, Marcelle Chualakou.

0:40.5

Also in this podcast, marking the legacy of South African Jazz at the London Jazz Festival.

0:56.1

We begin in the United Arab Emirates.

0:59.1

The authorities there have arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of a rabbi who went missing last Thursday.

1:05.6

The body of Rabbi Svi Kogan, who was a joint Israeli Moldova National, was found on Sunday.

1:12.4

Israelis have been able to work and live in the UAE since the signing of the Abraham Peace Accords in 2022.

1:20.2

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to bring the rabbi's killers to justice.

1:26.3

Julian Marshall spoke to the BBC's Frank Gardner, who's in Jerusalem,

1:30.4

and began by asking him if there are any details about how Rabbi Kogan met his death.

1:36.0

He only went missing on Thursday.

1:38.7

24 hours later, there was an announcement that terrorism was suspected,

1:47.2

that he had gone missing, and there were real concerns that Mossad, Israel's external spy agency, was looking into this and was taking

1:53.5

charge of the investigation together with the Emirati authorities. And a few hours after that

2:00.1

came the announcement that his body had been found

2:03.5

and his car was found about 90 minutes drive away from his home in Abu Dhabi.

2:09.1

I mean, quite a bit is known about him. He's a young rabbi, 28 years old. He was part of

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