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Keiran Donahue, sheriff of Canyon County, Calif., speaks to attendees at the ZAKA event at the National Sheriffs' Association, July 7, 2025. Photo by Gabby Darling/National Sheriffs’ Association.
100 sheriffs from 30 states attend ZAKA training session in Florida
They learn about Jewish laws and customs governing the treatment of human remains.
JNS Staff
July 11, 2025
Residents snap pictures of the destruction following an Iranian missile strike in Rehovot in central Israel, on June 15, 2025. Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images.
Double whammy: ZAKA volunteer struck twice by Iranian missiles
"I've been dealing with PTSD since the war began, but no rocket will stop me from continuing to volunteer with ZAKA," Jamal Waraki tells JNS.
Rolene Marks
June 26, 2025
Dr. Gal Rosen (right) examines a 6-day-old girl in Tel Aviv on June 16, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Magen David Adom.
In Israel, some rescuers rush in not knowing if they’ll return
The dramatic reality following Iranian missile strikes is causing some responders to risk their lives to save others.
Canaan Lidor
June 20, 2025
Then-Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, now the defense minister, waits in Jerusalem for the arrival of British Foreign Minister David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Aug. 16, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Defense minister: Israel won’t allow ‘murderers’ to ‘sit on borders’
He also assured ZAKA that Jerusalem will bring back all of the hostages, “those who are alive and those who are not.”
JNS Staff
March 7, 2025
View of the Los Angeles wildfires from a rooftop in West Hollywood, on Jan. 8, 2025. Credit: YisroelB501 via Wikimedia Commons.
ZAKA offers assistance with California wildfires
Israeli NGO IsraAID is also planning to send an emergency response team to support communities affected by the fires.
JNS Staff
Jan. 14, 2025
An anti-Israel protest and a pro-Israel counter-protest ensued in Teaneck, N.J., after a synagogue hosted an event featuring firsthand accounts by ZAKA representatives detailing the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 in southern Israel, April 1, 2024. Credit: The Jewish Link.
Huge counter-protest for Israel drowns out ‘intifada revolution’ calls in Teaneck
“The Jewish community stood up and showed we are not going to be intimidated,” said Steve Fox, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck, N.J.
Elizabeth Kratz
April 2, 2024
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
Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot had frozen Roman Abramovich's bank account for fear of E.U. and U.K. sanctions.
Feb. 1, 2024
ZAKA volunteer Simcha Greiniman at the site of Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre. Photo courtesy of Simcha Greiniman.
‘Nothing prepares you for it’
"I have dealt with blown-up buses, restaurants, hotels and butchered synagogues, but seeing hundreds of bodies at a rave laying in a field... you can’t ever train yourself to be ready for that,” says veteran ZAKA volunteer Simcha Greiniman.
Amelie Botbol
Dec. 31, 2023
A ZAKA—Disaster Victim Identification volunteer at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Gaza Strip, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
‘She was gang-raped, then executed’: Testimonies from Oct. 7
The Israel Police questioned perpetrators and interviewed victims and others, shedding light on the sadistic nature of the Islamic terrorists.
Itsik Saban
Nov. 10, 2023