{"id":19940,"date":"2025-04-17T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:03:45","slug":"rivky-kogan-welcomes-baby-girl-after-husbands-killing-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/rivky-kogan-welcomes-baby-girl-after-husbands-killing-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivky Kogan Welcomes Baby Girl After Husband\u2019s Killing in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby girl was born this morning (Thursday) to Rivky Kogan, the widow of Rabbi Zvi Kogan z\u201dl, the Chabad emissary who was murdered in Dubai in November 2024. For four years, the couple led Chabad activities in the United Arab Emirates, where Rabbi Kogan was also known for distributing challah ahead of Shabbat and helping to run the country\u2019s only kosher grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was just going about his regular routine\u2014he didn\u2019t think anything was about to happen,\u201d said Rabbi Sholom Duchman, father of Rabbi Levi Duchman, who heads Chabad\u2019s operations in the Emirates and was Kogan\u2019s brother-in-law. Rabbi Kogan\u2019s body was brought to Israel and buried at the end of March.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19942\" style=\"width: 818px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19942 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hope2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"818\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hope2.webp 818w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hope2-300x219.webp 300w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hope2-768x561.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The coffin of Rabbi Zvi Kogan z\u201dl, murdered in Dubai, being prepared for transport to Israel for burial. Credit: ZAKA International Spokesperson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Disappeared During a Routine Day\u2014Found Lifeless<\/strong><br \/>\nOn the morning of November 21, Rabbi Kogan left his home, passed the kosher store, and exchanged messages with a friend he planned to meet later that day. After that, he disappeared. At first he was listed as missing, but later it emerged that he had been kidnapped\u2014apparently as part of an attempt to smuggle him into Oman. The plan failed, and his body was discovered within the territory of the UAE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justice in the Emirates: \u201cThis is how you fight terror\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nRabbi Kogan had told friends in the past that he did not feel threatened living in an Arab country. Nevertheless, the local Jewish community had been advised to act cautiously, in light of online protests that arose against its presence\u2014though there were no reported incidents of physical violence.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a court in the UAE sentenced the three suspects in the murder to death. Following the verdict, MK Oded Forer, chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu faction, called on Israel to adopt the same standard by applying the death penalty to terrorists. \u201cThis is how you fight terror\u2014capital punishment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X account, Forer wrote: \u201cThis is how you fight terror\u2014in the Emirates, murderers get the death penalty. And here? Bibi keeps dragging his feet. This so-called right-wing government has been blocking the death penalty bill I advanced in its preliminary reading\u2014for more than two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And in the midst of pain\u2014new joy: a daughter is born to Rabbi Kogan z\u201dl, new life born from tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New life out of deep sorrow: Just a few months after the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan z\u201dl, his wife Rivky has given birth to their first child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,129,2276,88,6],"tags":[1772,4311,3229,4315,4313,4314,2895,2189,4312],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-judaism","category-people","category-will-remember","category-security","tag-chabad","tag-death-penalty-for-terrorists","tag-dubai","tag-israel-uae-relations","tag-jewish-community-abroad","tag-rivky-kogan","tag-terror-victims","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-zvi-kogan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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