(IsraelNN.com) A Jew in Uzbekistan was murdered and a Chabad rabbi in Germany was stabbed in the past few days.

Mark Weil, a theater director in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was found murdered near his home Thursday night, according to theYediot Acharonot newspaper. There were stab wounds all over his body.

Police said the murder was carried out by two men and was believed  to have been anti-Semitic. Weil was involved in the local Jewish community and founded a theater that often hosted Israeli drama and literature festivals.
  
In Germany, Chabad emissary Rabbi Schneur Zalman Gurevitch was stabbed by an Arabic-speaking attacker in Frankfurt’s financial district.

The 42-year-old rabbi was walking home from synagogue through Frankfurt’s West End area on Friday night when an Arabic-speaking man approached him. He said something in Arabic and when the rabbi said he didn’t understand, yelled in German for him to “die” while stabbing him in the stomach.

The rabbi made it to a local hospital and told police that the man had fled with two women. He is in stable condition after an operation. Readers are asked to say Tehillim for Schneur Zalman ben [son of] Chana for a complete and speedy recovery.