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Russian-Israeli tycoon Roman Abramovich arrives at the Western Wall for his son Aaron's bar mitzvah, Dec. 20, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

Tel Aviv court orders bank to transfer Abramovich donation to ZAKA

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The Tel Aviv District Court instructed Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot on Wednesday to transfer Roman Abramovich's 8 million-shekel ($2.2 million) donation to ZAKA, a volunteer search and rescue organization. The Russian-Israeli billionaire made the charitable contribution to...
Yehuda Meshi Zahav. Credit: ZAKA.

ZAKA rescue organization founder to receive Israel Prize for lifetime achievement

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Yehuda Meshi Zahav, founder and chairman of ZAKA, was tapped for the 2021 Israel Prize in the category of “Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Society and the State,” Israeli Education Minister Yoav Galant...
A view of the Israeli-built housing development in Guatemala. Credit: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Israel completes housing for Guatemalans who lost homes in 2018 volcano blast

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Israel’s embassy in Guatemala recently finished its housing development in the town of Escuintla for families whose homes were destroyed in the 2018 Fuego volcano eruption. On Jan. 31, Israel’s Ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras...
Yehuda Meshi Zahav, chairman of Israel's ZAKA rescue unit outside sitting shivah for his mother in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Jan. 19, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Yehuda Meshi Zahav’s crucial COVID message to fellow haredim

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The triple tragedy that struck the family of one of Israel’s most righteous Jews in the course of a single month is garnering nationwide attention and sympathy. That COVID-19 caused the deaths of Yehuda...
DIHAD executive chairman Abdul Salam al-Madani and ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav sign a memorandum of understanding in Dubai on Nov. 25, 2020. Photo courtesy of ZAKA.

Israeli search-and-rescue organization signs historic MoU with UAE counterparts

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The Jerusalem-based ZAKA International Rescue Unit announced this week that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its counterparts in the United Arab Emirates. The Israeli humanitarian organization, made up of volunteers who...
The Great Synagogue of Constanța in Romania. Credit: Wikipedia.

Romania Jewish community given rabbinical permission for Shabbat burials

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The Jewish community of Bucharest, Romania, received a rabbinical exception to bury those who have died as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on Shabbat to help bypass Romanian government orders on Friday that such victims...
ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav briefs volunteers as they travel to Ethiopia to recover the bodies of two Israelis killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Source: ZAKA.

ZAKA dispatched to Ethiopia to recover remains of two Israelis who died in crash

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Two ZAKA International Rescue Teams were dispatched to Ethiopia to assist in the identification and recovery of the Israeli victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa airport, killing...
“Shoes on the Danube Promenade” memorial to the Holocaust on the Danube River, erected in 2005. Credit: Nikodem Nijaki/Wikimedia Commons.

Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims

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At the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and in coordination with forensic experts from the Israeli emergency organization ZAKA, an Israeli recovery team will dive to the bottom of Hungary’s Danube river to...

Zaka recovers body of Rabbi from rubble left by Mexico City earthquake

Almost a week after a deadly earthquake struck Mexico, Israeli rescuers, including a team of ZAKA volunteers who recovered the body of a Mexico City rabbi, continue to work around the clock in the...

Jewish books remain intact in Houston Evangelical Christian’s devastated home

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The only treasure that survived Hurricane Harvey’s flood damage in the home belonging to Adrian, a member of evangelical Christian Pastor Becky Keenan’s Gulf Meadows Church in Houston, Texas, was his prized library of...