Grieving kin of Dubai terror-victim Rabbi Zvi Kogan said Sunday they always thought he was “invincible,’’ even as they recalled warning him against moving there, given their tragic ties to a past terrorism act.
Grieving kin of Dubai terror-victim Rabbi Zvi Kogan said Sunday they always thought he was “invincible,’’ even as they recalled warning him against moving there, given their tragic ties to a past terrorism act.
The widow of the 28-year-old murdered rabbi had an aunt and uncle killed in a terror attack in Mumbai in 2008.
“This is like reopening old wounds,” said Rabbi Aharon Spielman, the brother of Kogan’s widow, Rivky, to The Post.
“My mother specifically had her reservations, being that her brother was murdered in Mumbai,” Spielman said about his younger sister and her husband Kogan moving to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates after they married in 2022.
Rivky’s uncle, Gavriel Holtzberg, along with his wife, Rivka, were murdered during the 2008 terror attacks in India, Spielman said. Brutal shootings and bombings organized by Islamist militants took place over four days that November, targeting luxury hotels, a Jewish cultural center and other populous places, leaving 175 people dead.
In the UAE, a country considered one of the safest in the world, Kogan’s murder is “clearly antisemitic,” Spielman said.
