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About
ZAKA

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ZAKA volunteers are synonymous with good people of all social circles, colors, and religious affiliations.Ultra-orthodox, religious, and secular individuals, Jews and non-Jews, Yeshiva students rubbing shoulders with business owners, lawyers, and others. All are united with the goal: "Hessed", grace, and not just any grace - Hessed Shel Emet, true grace, the type of grace for which no reward is expected.

Today, ZAKA Tel Aviv has around 400 volunteers from all cities in the district. They are willing to contribute their time and effort for the important commandment of Met Metsaveh, extending kindness to the deceased at all times, day or night, year round. They are always on call, with no consideration for convenience, time, or distance. Volunteers are divided into regional teams based on their place of residence. The rest are assigned to daily teams who back up the small local team.

Tel Aviv District has the greatest number of incidents - nearly as many as the rest of the country combined. Tel Aviv - Yaffo is Israel's biggest metropolis, its commercial and entertainment hub. Its population is greater of that of any other community in Israel, with its surrounding cities depending on it in many senses and affected by it in different ways. There isn't a single person who isn't connected to the city of Tel Aviv in one way or another. This stands to empower the work of volunteers.

ZAKA volunteers are officers of the public. They are your agents, at all times of the day, in daily life and in emergencies, at the most tragic of cases. They respond to every emergency call and carry out the most difficult tasks - finding missing persons, helping with rescue, saving lives, identifying disaster victims, ensuring the dignity of deceased Jews and bringing them to Jewish burial

זק"א תל אביב

The Foundation
of ZAKA

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It was one morning in the fall. October 19, 1994, 14 Heshvan 5755. A loud explosion shook the heart of Tel Aviv. Smoke and blood covered its road. A suicide bomber blew himself up on bus no. 5 operated by Dan bus company. Twenty-two people were killed. About a hundred others were injured. Lives were severed. Others changed beyond recognition. This was one of the first - and most serious - suicide bombings Israel had ever seen.

The police and emergency forces also faced an unfamiliar challenge. Police Deputy Commissioner Gabi Last, Commander of the Tel Aviv Police District at the time, said: "This was a traumatic event. It was the first time we had seen an event of this magnitude. We didn't know what to do next."

This moment would forever stay with me. This was the moment when a decision was made to mobilize, to bring together the right people and establish with them the Tel Aviv District ZAKA Organization.

From that awful day to this very day, the volunteers of the organization have been working with great conviction. These godsend, hard-working people are doing God's work with tremendous soulfulness. They show up, for no compensation, at dozens and hundreds of incidents. They are called to thousands of bloody scenes and carry out their holy work with mental stillness and outstanding courage.

אמבולנסים זקא

Vision

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ZAKA Tel Aviv will assist any person in need, regardless of religion, race, or gender, at no cost, with love and compassion, in order to help any person in their most difficult time. In its activities, ZAKA Tel Aviv will bring the nation together, do God's work in public, and increase awareness of the dignity of the deceased, since "God created man" - any man - "in his own image". First to provide last aid. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year.