The Jewish world woke up to the tragic news that Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan Chabad-Lubatich emissary in the United Arab Emirates, was kidnapped and murdered by an Iranian-backed terrorist group.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed revenge.But what will happen next, and why was Rabbi Kogan murdered?

Join JNS CEO and Jerusalem bureau chief Alex Traiman, and Middle East correspondent Josh Hasten, as they unpack this story and more, including the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant; the U.S. vetoing a U.N. ceasefire proposal for Lebanon; and Washington withholding more arms from the Jewish state.

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