ZAKA
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ZAKA (, abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, , ) is a series of voluntary post-disaster response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). They are recognized by the Israeli government. The full name is "ZAKA – Identification, Extraction and Rescue – True Kindness" (). The two largest ZAKA factions are Zaka Tel Aviv and ZAKA Search and Rescue.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- ZAKA
- Organization.native name
- זק"א
- Organization.native_name_lang
- he
- Organization.logo
- Zaka Logo.svg
- Organization.logo_size
- 205
- Organization.purpose
- First aid, search and rescue, Jewish burial
- Organization.location_country
- Israel
- Organization.leader_title
- CEO
- Organization.leader_name
- Dubi Weissenstern
- Organization.founder
- Yehuda Meshi Zahav
- Organization.volunteers
- >3,000
- Organization.volunteers_year
- 2023
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
זק״א - איתור חילוץ והצלה
zaka.org.il →Link to the official site · 16,838 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Background
- History
- Organization
- International rescue and recovery operations
- Casualties and injuries
- Controversies
- Yehuda Meshi-Zahav
- October 7 attacks
- Key people
- See also
- References
- External links
ZAKA (, abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, , ) is a series of voluntary post-disaster response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). They are recognized by the Israeli government. The full name is "ZAKA – Identification, Extraction and Rescue – True Kindness" (). The two largest ZAKA factions are Zaka Tel Aviv and ZAKA Search and Rescue.
ZAKA faced insolvency before 7 October 2023. Given the job of retrieving the dead bodies after the October 7 attacks, they started fund-raising on 8 October 2023. By 31 January 2024, they had raised over 50 million shekels ($13.7 million). According to Haaretz, ZAKA's conduct in the aftermath of the attacks was unprofessional, including mixing up remains and spreading misinformation about atrocities that never happened in order to raise money.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ZAKA” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.