Tag: Zaka
Tel Aviv court orders bank to transfer Abramovich donation to ZAKA
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...
ZAKA rescue organization founder to receive Israel Prize for lifetime achievement
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...
Israel completes housing for Guatemalans who lost homes in 2018 volcano blast
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’s crucial COVID message to fellow haredim
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...
Israeli search-and-rescue organization signs historic MoU with UAE counterparts
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...
Romania Jewish community given rabbinical permission for Shabbat burials
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 dispatched to Ethiopia to recover remains of two Israelis who died in crash
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...
Israel to scan Hungary’s Danube river from remains of Holocaust victims
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
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...