Tag: ZAKA

ZAKA volunteers are all too familiar with the aftermath of violent death, but even their familiarity with raw tragedy could not brace them for the scale and savagery of the Hamas attack.

“This was a joint operation and would not have succeeded without the effort of all three organizations."

A clause was included in a Parliamentary bill, allowing for families of the deceased to oppose cremation out of religious reasons.

The clock is ticking down to the New Year, and we urgently need to raise $180,000 to buy 600 specially-adapted phones for our ZAKA volunteers.

Miraculously, the Jewish texts which have withstood almost 2,000 years of exile, have stood up to Houston's flood waters.

Israel goes out to the American people affected by Hurricane Harvey.

After an initial briefing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and with the Orthodox Union which is coordinating the volunteers within the Jewish community in Houston, the ZAKA team set out to work.

'We are currently running a fundraising campaign to purchase a ZAKA Chesed Truck.'

The laws of burying the dead in Judaism.

'Why was it necessary to take the body to the institute? After all, he was not the driver. He was sitting in the back seat.'

He studied in a Talmud Torah and was one of the brave young men who fought in the Old City of Jerusalem during the War of Independence.

The exercise enacted a scenario in which the rivers in Montenegro flooded large populated areas, home to around 640,000 residents.

The airport's cargo crew on the graveyard shift found the body in the box.

Israelis have complained to the organization that it is sacrilegious to wrap the bodies of the terrorists in bags with the ZAKA inscription.

Israeli rescue organizations bringing aid and expertise to the devastated Nepalese.

"It was a very difficult scene inside the supermarket. It was as if time stood still, with shopping carts full of food in preparation for Shabbat in the cashier aisles and deliveries waiting to be sent to customers..."

ZAKA crews work to collect and clean up the blood from the Har Nof Massacre today.

Ukrainian Jews Receive Emergency Training from ZAKA and United Hatzalah.

Israel’s advanced medical care may save the life of the Chabad rabbi who was shot after midnight Wednesday near the border between Russia and Chechnya. His condition is “life-threatening,” doctors say.

Training held on Jerusalem College of Engineering campus. ZAKA volunteers: "The objective is to create a unified work technique"

Aharon Alexander Gorshonov, 25, the Jewish man who was attacked after he had left a seder at a synagogue in Kiev, will be flown...

The bodies of the four victims of Monday’s shooting attack at the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse arrived at Ben Gurion Airport accompanied by ZAKA volunteers. The bodies were flown out on the midnight El Al flight from Paris to Tel Aviv.

A young woman in Bnei Brak, Israel, had a problem Wednesday: she was about to get married, but the streets outside the wedding hall, situated next to Kiryat Vishnitz, also in Bnei Brak, were packed with thousands of Vishnitz Hasidim who came to pay their last respects to the Vishnitzer Rebbe. She called the ZAKA (a humanitarian volunteer organization) hotline.

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, Chairman and Founder of ZAKA, made his comments in an extended opinion his Facebook page.