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	Zaka
		Many Zaka volunteers have had the unenviable task of cradling a dying child in their arms or a severely maimed victim, crying out for mercy.
		Zaka volunteers are the true "unsung heroes" on the front-lines of Israel's incessant battles against terrorism.
		Because Zaka has been recognized by the Israeli government as part of the country's security apparatus, potential volunteers are trained by the police, and Magen David Adom.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Orgs/zaka.html (346 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: ZAKA by Steven Marc Friedman
		ZAKA developed into a formal organization in 1995, and was approved as Israel’s official organization for evacuation of victims of unnatural death.
		ZAKA volunteers will resuscitate, and then search a bomb scene for severed body parts that might potentially be rushed to the hospitals for potential surgical reimplantation on the victim.
		ZAKA volunteers routinely confront amputations, burnt limbs, headless babies still strapped in their prams, bits of flesh in the trees, etc. They are also subjected to maladaptive reactions by victims’ families.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7653 (1774 words)

	ZAKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The founders and members of ZAKA prefer to call the organization and their work Hessed shel Emet ("true kindness"), because they are dedicated to arranging the bodies of slain Jews to be buried according to Halakha (Jewish Torah law).
		The devotion of the members of ZAKA and the professional manner in which they handled difficult and tragic scenes, such as the treatment of the bodies of Victims killed in suicide bombings, led to strong public respect and admiration.
		In 2004, a group of ZAKA volunteers flew to The Hague, Holland, with the wreckage of a bus destroyed on January 29th, 2004 in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
	zaka.iqnaut.net (679 words)

	Presbyterian Evangelisic Fellowship
		Anees Zaka was born in the Middle East and holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy, master's dergrees in theology, and a doctorate in missiology.
		Zaka lectures on Islamics and Urban Missions at Westminster Seminary and the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia.
		Church Without Walls was founded by Dr. Zaka a decade ago in Philadelphia as the "traveling expression of God's People." It has served as a model for Bible-believing churches to reach out to their Muslim neighbors and to share with them the Gospel of Christ.
	www.pefministry.org /zaka.html (196 words)

	Zaka volunteers cope with death
		Volunteers of the Zaka organization's Hesed Shel Emet division pick up small pieces of flesh and body parts to ensure a proper Jewish burial for an Israeli victim of a Palestinian suicide bomber in Kfar Saba, early in the intifada.
		Zaka volunteers say their faith in Judaism gives them the strength to keep going - and is their reason for volunteering in the first place.
		Zaka also holds two annual family days, where volunteers and their families come to relax and have fun.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/031010/zaka.shtml (903 words)

	Nissan Ratzlav-Katz on ZAKA on National Review Online
		ZAKA leaders decided that such a crucial advantage — in a situation where every second can mean the difference between life and death — had to be exploited to the fullest.
		Once their volunteers were properly trained, the ZAKA directors saw to it that they were equipped to save lives, outfitting certain units with motorcycles carrying lifesaving resuscitation equipment.
		Against a backdrop of ZAKA volunteers, firefighters, and policemen scurrying to and fro, the ZAKA spokesman explained to the foreign press corps what had happened and what needed yet to be done.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-ratzlav-katz082103.asp (1110 words)

	True Kindness
		ZAKA is part of Israel's security system, and volunteers are trained by the police and Magen David Adom in proper management of forensic evidence and religious management of the deceased.
		ZAKA volunteers are at high risk, and may have to dodge snipers' bullets and secondary "human bombs" lurking in the shadows after an initial attack, who explode themselves in the midst of the volunteers, police, soldiers, rescue workers and innocent bystanders.
		ZAKA receives no government funding, and relies on private donors, in Israel and abroad, for its equipment, ambulances, yellow vests, the plastic containers to collect blood and body tissue, the cell phones and the body bags.
	www.jewish-holiday.com /zaka.html (810 words)

	Case of Moshe Meshi Zahav - Jerusalem, Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The police investigation depicts that the molestations took place at a ZAKA vehicle, in darkened parking lots in Jerusalem.According to the complaints, Meshi Zahav used to locate adolescent girls in distress, who were runaways or in boarding schools.
		According to Zaka's complaint, the organization appealed several times to the city's religious committee and to the Chevra Kadisha (volunteer funeral committee), to please bury the remains, but they refused.
		For a long time Zaka has been trying to solve the issue quietly, in order not to hurt the families, but unfortunately, the only way to bring the parts to burial was by way of the press.
	www.theawarenesscenter.org /Zahav_MosheMeshi.html (3214 words)

	ZAKA Rescues Damaged Torah Scroll from New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Leider, who spent five years with ZAKA's search- and-rescue squad in Israel, arrived in New Orleans last week to ensure that the bodies of Jews killed by Hurricane Katrina are treated in accordance with Jewish religious law.
		Leider was joined by members of the National Guard and other volunteers who were brought by ZAKA in a private helicopter from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
		The helicopter landed a few blocks away from the synagogue, and an inflatable boat was used to transport ZAKA volunteers to Congregation Beth Israel.
	www.ou.org /other/5765/katzakatorah65.htm (251 words)

	Kindness Amid Terror - Torah.org
		An all-volunteer organization founded seven years ago, ZAKA is a Hebrew acronym for the phrase "Identification of Victims of Disaster." The group's purpose is to accord a proper Jewish burial to the remains of those who met their ends in natural or manmade disasters.
		In this task, ZAKA members, 99 percent of whom are Orthodox, see themselves as fulfilling a great mitzva.
		ZAKA's American address is: ZAKA Rescue and Recovery, 500 8th Avenue, Suite 905, NY, 10018.
	www.torah.org /features/firstperson/zaka.html (1127 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Bomb aftermath: Grim task of recovery volunteers
		Its members can be seen at the scene of every terrorist attack in their luminous orange and yellow vests, meticulously collecting human remains, from body parts to spatters of blood.
		Zaka was formed in 1995 to help police deal with the trauma of large-scale attacks.
		On 9 March 2002, 27-year-old Zaka volunteer Yisrael Yichya was alerted to an attack in the northern Israeli city of Netanya.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1933177.stm (879 words)

	Print Version - ZAKA: Always There When Terror Strikes
		Its volunteers, who are easily identifiable by their bright yellow vests, are often the first rescue workers to appear at the scene of a terrorist bombing or shooting -- and the last to leave.
		ZAKA volunteers are the ones who search the area for severed body parts of survivors so that the limbs can be rushed to the hospitals for reattachment.
		Long after the wounded are taken from the scene, Zaka's staff continues to remain involved with the victims and their families.
	www.aish.com /SSI/articleToPrint.asp?PageURL=/jewishissues/israeldiary/ZAKA_Always_There_When_Terror_Strikes.xml&torahportion= (1214 words)

	EJP \| News \| Zaka petitions French Jewry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zaka, whose volunteers are best known for rushing to the scene of suicide bomb attacks, has run up debts mounting of up to 1.5 million euros, and is calling on all of its former donors for help.
		Zaka recently filed a bankruptcy petition and has six months to repay its debts, but French Jews wonder whether a flow of money could really solve the association’s difficulties.
		“Zaka spent this money in the years 2001- 2002, during the toughest period of the intifada or Palestinian uprising,” Iris Boker told EJP.
	www.ejpress.org /article/news/2965 (409 words)

	Rishon Rishon: ZAKA
		ZAKA is on a long list of things I consider blogging about from time to time, but haven’t.
		Shortly after beginning operations, ZAKA discovered that they were often the first to arrive at the scene of a disaster.
		The ZAKA volunteers, on the other hand, arrive in their own vehicles: the central organization merely locates the closest volunteers to the site of the disaster, and tells them to go.
	www.rishon-rishon.com /archives/051574.php (456 words)

	What is Zaka(t)?
		ZAKA is a positive virtue which signifies positive growth and development.
		Zaka means increase or augmentation or growth or development.
		Please see the verse 2:177 in which giving some of the wealth to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives has been differentiated from the term aatoozzakaat.
	quranicteachings.co.uk /zakat.htm (943 words)

	israelinsider: politics: Rabbi rules Gaza graves must be moved; ZAKA refuses to lend a helping hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The security establishment requested that ZAKA Rescue & Recovery -- the organization that ensures the proper burial and collection of human tissues after terror attacks -- participate in exhuming the graves of those buried in Gush Katif.
		ZAKA refused the request and also decided to discontinue its work with traffic police, despite fears that the latter will free up officers to participate in this summer's planned expulsion of Jews from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria.
		Meshi-Zahav He explained that of late, ZAKA volunteers have been taking part in police-run traffic safety courses -- but that he suddenly realized that his volunteers' efforts were to be used to "free up" policemen for expulsion work.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/5469.htm (882 words)

	ZAKA: Always There When Terror Strikes
		ZAKA volunteers are often the first rescue workers to appear at the scene of a terrorist bombing or shooting -- and the last to leave.
		I just found out about the Zaka organization and I was touched to learn that there are people out there that are so willing to help people in need the way this group does.
		I was touched to read articles about Zaka and those should be commended for all the hard and sometimes unbearable jobs that they do.
	www.aish.com /jewishissues/israeldiary/ZAKA_Always_There_When_Terror_Strikes.asp (1493 words)

	Philadelphia Jewish Voice: How to make a "safer" torah
		Zaka is known in Israel for providing emergency aid at the scene of bombings.
		Zaka was also trying to get to the Chabad synagogue that is still under water and save eight Torah scrolls believed to be inside.
		According to Zaka's report, four of the bodies were already recovered, one buried in New York and another in Baton Rouge, and there was an ongoing attempt to gain access to the other two.
	www.pjvoice.com /v4/4113torah.html (478 words)

	Zaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zaka is the loa of agriculture, and rules the fields and the farmer.
		Zaka’s nature is gentle, grudging, hard working, suspicious, playful, voracious, a gossip, and avoids “city folk”.
		In this piece, Zaka’s face is the color of a gourd, his long hair, entwined with sticks and seeds.
	www.folkart.com /catalog/zaka_4122018.htm (229 words)

	DSJV Deep South Jewish Voice
		Leider, who spent five years with ZAKA's search-and-rescue squad in Israel, arrived in New Orleans last week to ensure that the bodies of Jews killed by Hurricane Katrina are treated in accordance with Jewish religious law.
		In the operation to rescue the Torah scrolls, Leider was joined by members of the National Guard and other volunteers who were brought by ZAKA in a private helicopter from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
		Since the Israel-based charity organization, ZAKA, is strapped for cash, Agudath Israel of America partially funded the operation.
	www.dsjv.com /2005/09/deep-south-file-zaka-rescues-flood.html (1134 words)

	Connect With Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ZAKA was founded with the intent to ensure that people who die, whether through terrorist attacks or other causes, are identified and receive a proper burial.
		"In a joint study conducted by Zaka and Israel's Ministry of Health, researchers found that motorcycle-driven first aid units are able to reach the scene of an emergency on an average of less than half the time it takes for a conventional 4-wheel emergency vehicle".
		ZAKA needs more of these motorcycles in order to continue its work effectively.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /rally/connect.shtml (2852 words)

	All-round display by Zaka -DAWN - Sport; March, 25 2005
		Set 194 for victory, Zaka scored an unbeaten 114 hitting 10 boundaries and three sixes as Pakistan overhauled the target for the loss of only Iqbal Butt (32) in 29 overs.
		Zaka and Iqbal made 113 runs in the opening stand.
		Earlier, Zaka with his off-spin bowling snared three wickets for 24 as the Indians scored 193 for nine in the allotted 45 overs.
	www.dawn.com /2005/03/25/spt9.htm (149 words)

	Penzion Zaka - Bled, Slovenija
		Restaurant of the Rowing Center is a part of the sport and tourist complex of Zaka Bay on the north side of Lake Bled.
		At this friendly location, one of the finest on Lake Bled, you can enjoy the beauty and relaxation of nature, an active game of tennis, a swim in the lake and then walk a short distance and enjoy the conviences of the town.
		Next to the restaurant is the Club Zaka Bar, known for its varied refreshments and friendly surroundings.
	www.bled-zaka.com /index.php?eng (164 words)

	Zaka hammers double century: Deaf Cricket -DAWN - Sport; 3 April, 2005
		RAWALPINDI, April 2: Skipper Zaka Ahmed hammered an unbeaten double century as Pakistan deaf cricket team wrapped up the one-day series against India 4-1 after crushing the visitors in the fifth and final match by 286 runs at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Saturday.
		Zaka yet again led from the front and took four for 27 while Mohammad Iqbal grabbed two for 43.
		For his brilliant showing in the series, Zaka was declared Man-of-the-Match as well as the Man-of-the-Series.
	www.dawn.com /2005/04/03/spt16.htm (207 words)

	ZAKA NUI \| My Bionicle Island!
		As the Toa Zaka headed further into Zaka Nui, they could see the glowing eyes of the Rahzahk in the distance.
		Makuta gave him a plasma blade, and a zamor sphere launcher on his first mission- to find the island of Zaka Nui and recover the Staff of Ages.
		Disobeying all their creators, the Toa Zaka, as they called themselves, had only to recover the Staff of Ages.
	www.freewebs.com /zaka-nui/index.htm (281 words)

	ZAKA and Captain Z - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zaka is a children’s series aimed at bringing the complex world of Money, Finance and The Economy to the target audience of 7-12 year old children, in a fun, exciting and accessible way.
		Next time on Zaka, Captain Z takes us on a supersonic visit to meet the Minister of Finance, Mr.
		On this show, we get to learn what a budget is, and why the Government needs to have one.
	www.zaka.co.za (241 words)

	Yourish.com » Zaka is nearly bankrupt
		Contributions are down because terrorism attacks are down, and people are under the mistaken impression that Zaka only responds to terrorist attacks.
		Members of the 1,400-strong Zaka volunteer network respond to all incidents to ensure that the body of the deceased is treated with the appropriate dignity as demanded by the Jewish Torah.
		With a fleet of 34 ambulances and 150 motorbikes, it costs Zaka £35,000 a month just to cover its costs.
	www.yourish.com /2005/11/29/380 (213 words)

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