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Thanks to the vigilance of the neighbors, the life of an 85-year-old man who slipped and fell in his house was saved! ZAKA volunteers were called to Rachel Street in Haifa following a report by neighbors, that the elderly person they visit every day did not answer the...
ZAKA has come up with an ingenious way of tracking the lonely and childless through digital water clocks. This is part of ZAKAs continued to push to find new innovative ideas for the Don't Leave Them Behind campaign. The idea is simple, use water usage as a way to...
President of Israel Reuven (Rubi) Rivlin announced that employees at the President’s Residence will take part in the ZAKA “Don’t Leave them Behind” initiative, by making regular phone calls to check on the health and wellbeing of elderly people and those living alone....
Women in the Lower Galilee town of Deir Al Asad were recently trained in the basics of lifesaving by ZAKA volunteers, in a first-of-its-kind joint initiative between ZAKA’s Eshet Lapidot and the Deir Al Asad local council. This, in order to give the women of the...
Nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews were shot into the River Danube in Budapest in 1944, ZAKA Search and Rescue divers are about to begin searching the river in an attempt to retrieve their bones for a full Jewish burial. This, after three years...
Left to right, ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, Israel Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and President, ZAKA Search and Rescue USA Edward A. Mermelstein In a small ceremony overlooking the United Nations headquarters in New York, attorney, consultant, investor...
A festive ceremony took place yesterday (April 22) in Jerusalem to lay the cornerstone of the ZAKA World Headquarters, which will provide the volunteer search and rescue organization with a purpose-built headquarters that will serve as the nerve center for ZAKA’s...
New York, NY- ZAKA Search and Rescue, an organization based in Israel that establishes, trains, and equips rescue units all around the world, has formed an advisory board in New York. On February 12th, The Consul General of Israel in New York, Dani Dayan, hosted a...
As part of ZAKA’s ongoing outreach campaign to Jewish communities, ZAKA International Director David Rose and ZAKA U.S. Resource Development Director Menachem Bar-Shalom brought the ZAKA message to the wider Dallas Jewish world in late October. At the invitation of...
Against the background of increasing anti-Semitic attacks in France and the ever-growing threat of Islamic terrorism in Europe, ZAKA has recently expanded its activities in France. During a recent visit to Paris, ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav met with Joel Mergui,...
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