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00:00Well, Zwickogan himself was not a well-known figure.
00:04He's one of thousands of emissaries of this pretty vast international Jewish group that
00:11was established by the Lubavitcher Rabbi decades ago.
00:16Their headquarters is in the United States, in New York.
00:20And they have these sort of hostels that are open around the world, open basically to anyone
00:26but principally to Jewish travelers, backpackers, tourists, or in places such as the UAE, expat,
00:33you know, small Jewish communities that form in, certainly in emergent markets.
00:39So if it turns out that this was some kind of horrible accident, I'm not sure it will
00:45have a major effect.
00:46But if the Israeli suspicions are proven correct, and the UAE eventually announces that in fact
00:53this was an Iranian-backed targeted terror attack aimed at this particular rabbi, a Moldovan
01:01Israeli, I do think that there, we should expect repercussions, not just Israeli repercussions
01:08against Iran, though I'm sure we'll see that, but also I think a hardening within the UAE
01:14that has really worked very hard to present itself as a safe place for all three monotheistic
01:20faiths in the Middle East.
01:22And I don't think we'll take kindly if it finds out that Iran dared to act this way
01:27on its territory.