ZAKA

ZAKA
זק"א
	ZAKA logo
Formation	1989
Founder	Yehuda Meshi Zahav
Purpose	First aid, search and rescue, Jewish burial
Location	Israel;
CEO	Dubi Weissenstern
Volunteers (2023)	>3,000
Website	http://www.zaka.org.il

ZAKA (Hebrew: זק"א, abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, זיהוי קרבנות אסון‎, lit. 'Disaster Victim Identification') is a series of voluntary community emergency response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). These organizations are recognized by the Israeli government. The full name is "ZAKA – Identification, Extraction and Rescue – True Kindness" (זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת‎). The two largest ZAKA factions are Zaka Tel Aviv and ZAKA Search and Rescue.

ZAKA faced insolvency before October 7, 2023. Given the job of retrieving the dead bodies after the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, they started fund-raising on October 8th, 2023. By the 31st January 2024, they had raised over 50 million shekels ($13.7 million).^[1]

^ Cite error: The named reference zaka-problems was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[zaka-problems-1] Cite error: The named reference zaka-problems was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1]