Posts Tagged: ZAKA
Israeli NGO Calls on World Holocaust Forum Attendees to Help Retrieve Bone Fragments Found at Auschwitz for Jewish Burial
The Israeli rescue and recovery volunteer organization ZAKA asked participants at Thursday's World Holocaust Forum to assist in recovering bone fragments from the site of...
Hungarian Jews Split About Danube Search for Holocaust Victims
Hungary's largest Jewish organization on Thursday asked Israeli and Hungarian authorities to suspend a search for the remains of Holocaust victims in the Danube riverbed, saying...
Israeli Team Begins Scan of Danube River for Remains of Holocaust Victims
An Israeli recovery team began mapping out the floor of the Danube in Budapest on Tuesday in search of the remains of Holocaust victims murdered on the...
Israeli Divers to Search Danube River in Budapest for Remains of Hungarian Jews Murdered in Holocaust
An Israeli search-and-rescue group will begin scouring the waters of the Danube River in the Hungarian capital of Budapest this week for the remains of...
ZAKA Volunteers Get Rabbinic Approval to Enter Temple Mount Compound During Response to Terror Attack
ZAKA emergency responders faced a dilemma on Friday following the shooting attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in which two Israeli border policemen were...
Israeli Emergency Responders, Water Tech Company Take Part in US National Guard Drill
JNS.org - Volunteer emergency responders from Israel and Israeli-developed water technology were both part of a multinational US National Guard emergency drill in Indiana this week. Members...
Soldier and Light Rail Security Guard Prevented Terrorist From Continuing Deadly Jerusalem Stabbing Spree, Eyewitnesses Say
Friday’s terrorist attack inside a Jerusalem light rail train -- in which a 21-year-old British woman Hannah Bladon was killed and two other people were injured...
Jerusalem First Responder Describes Scene of ‘Complete Mayhem’ After Truck-Ramming Attack in Which 4 IDF Soldiers Were Killed
The scene of Sunday’s deadly truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem in which four IDF soldiers were killed by an Arab terrorist was one of “complete mayhem,"...
Israel Arranging Return of Body of Arab Citizen Killed in Istanbul Terror Attack
JNS.org -- Israel is arranging the return of the body of an Arab-Israeli teenager killed in the the New Year’s Eve terror attack at an Istanbul nightclub. Israel’s Interior...
Israeli Rescue Team Arrives in French Alps to Help Recovery of Downed German Plane
A delegation of eight ZAKA International Rescue Unit volunteers flew in to assist in the search and recovery mission at the site of the Germanwings...
Ukrainian Jews Training for Emergency With ZAKA, United Hatzalah
KIEV, Ukraine - The current political crisis in Ukraine has propelled its Jewish community to request emergency training the from Israeli emergency response organizations -...
Chabad Rabbi Shot in Dagestan, Russia, Now Recovering in Israel Hospital, Vows to Return to Region Despite Danger (VIDEO)
Chabad Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot by "a member of one of the most extreme Islamic terrorist groups in the Chechnya-Caucasus area," according to the...
