ZAKA

ZAKA deploys team to aid Venezuela in search-and-rescue, distribute supplies, assess land

The international response team was deployed to Venezuela on June 29, ZAKA posted on Facebook on Wednesday.

Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building after earthquakes hit the country, in Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026.
 Peter Paltchik (inset) had gotten Israel on the Paris medal board earlier with a bronze in the -100kg category.

Israel's Olympics judo bronze medalist auctioning equipment to fund ZAKA PTSD treatments

THE TAIPEI Synagogue.

Taiwan's Jewish community establishes first-ever cemetery in Taipei, buries 74-year-old man

A ZAKA ambulance and El Al aircraft are seen at an airport in New Zealand, February 23, 2025

Two Israelis die in Malibu car crash, ZAKA working to identify victims


Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, former ZAKA head, dies year after attempted suicide

Meshi-Zahav had been accused of sexually assaulting women and children over a period of decades.

Yehuda Meshi Zahav, Chairman Israel's Zaka rescue unit poses for a picture outside his mother shiva, in the Ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, January 19, 2021.

13 wounded Ukrainians airlifted to Israel in joint rescue mission

Evacuees brought to Israel from Ukraine included several Holocaust survivors and a Jewish woman whose home was hit by a missile strike.

 Injured Ukrainians brought to Shaare Tzedek.

Grapevine: Perpetuating her name

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

ZAKA leader Rabbi Yehuda Meshi-Zahav and members of ZAKA, attend a simulation drill on June 21, 2011. Members of ZAKA, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, assist ambulance crews, aid in the identification of the victims of terror, road accidents and other disasters, and where necessary gather body parts

Holocaust survivor who died in China to be brought to Israel for burial

The body of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, Shmuel Yosef Briskin, who died in China before Rosh Hashanah, will be flown to Israel for burial by Chabad emissaries and the ZAKA international unit.

ZAKA volunteers transfer body of 42-year-old found alone days after he died

Man, 75, who climbed palm tree for a lulav dies after fall - report

Palm fronds, or lulavs, are part of the tradition of celebrating the holiday of Sukkot which will be celebrated next week.

Man holding lulav.

Israeli killed in Ukraine car crash to be flown to Israel for burial

Rabbi Avraham Levy died in a car crash after Rosh Hashanah on his way to the Kyiv Airport. Ten hassidim were injured in the crash.

 The rented minibus involved in an accident that killed 1 Hassid and injured 10

Bodies of Jerusalem yeshiva student plane crash victims land in US, UK

"Thanks to the activities of ZAKA representatives, Chabad emissaries and benefactors, the families will be able to "bury their loved ones even before Shabbat," ZAKA CEO Dubi Wiesenstern said.

Wreckages of the Ukrainian military Antonov An-26 plane are seen at its crash site outside of Chuhuiv town, Ukraine

Letters to the Editor July 19, 2021: Mass suicide is not painless

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Mount Meron: Why did it take 11 hours to transfer 45 bodies to Abu Kabir?

The final Meron victims were identified on Sunday morning at around 7 a.m. and released for burial the same day – nearly 55 hours after they died.

Israel works to identify 44 killed in Lag Ba'omer Mount Meron stampede

‘Identifying bodies from Meron Lag Ba'omer disaster could take hours’

Some 32 victims were identified and 22 released for burial before the onset of Shabbat.

Mourners attend the funeral of one of the victims of the Meron stampede that took place on Lag Ba'omer.