Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Yosef was crowned on Wednesday as Rishon Lezion, in a ceremony attended by the Shas party's Council of Torah Sages and Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman issued a desperate call to action this morning. For nearly a year, Nosson—a young Israeli husband and father—has endured unimaginable suffering in a Moldovan prison.

Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch organisation in Abu Dhabi Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested ...

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A Melbourne rabbi says his baby is lucky to be uninjured after a flaming projectile was allegedly thrown from a moving car on a suburban street. The young father was walking on Hotham Street in ...

Israeli authorities announced early Sunday that the body of a rabbi who disappeared Thursday in the United Arab Emirates had been found. Israel had previously warned that Rabbi Zvi Kogan ...

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who led the Abraham Accords negotiations, pledged $1 million to Chabad in UAE in memory of one of its emissaries. WASHINGTON — The killing of an Israeli ...

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi is feared dead after "terrorist involvement" was found related to his recent disappearance, prompting an investigation by the Mossad. Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad emissary ...

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. By Ismaeel Naar Reporting from Dubai ...

The New York Times appeared to subtly change a headline about the abduction and murder of an Abu Dhabi rabbi after garnering intense backlash on social media over the weekend. Israel confirmed the ...

The Israeli authorities called the killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan an act of terrorism. The Emirati government said it had arrested three people in connection with the murder. By Aaron Boxerman and ...

Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is investigating the disappearance of a rabbi in Abu Dhabi after receiving information indicating a "terrorist incident", the Israeli prime minister's office has ...