{"id":294,"date":"2009-03-16T20:26:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-03-18T00:53:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:53:30","slug":"israels-international-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/16\/israels-international-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s International Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ZAKA is not a name that is well-know outside Jewish circles. That’s because it is a UN-recognised Israeli humanitarian organisation. Not many people are interested in anything to do with Israel’s humanitarian activities – it doesn’t quite fit with their preconceptions, prejudices or bias.<\/p>\n

So for the uninformed here goes: ZAKA is a volunteer rescue and recovery service. \u00a0The organisation’s job is often a harrowing one, literally picking up the pieces after terrorist attacks, originally just in Israel.<\/p>\n

It’s role expanded over time because it widened its remit to include disasters abroad to recover the bodies of Jews to ensure burial according to Jewish law and practice.<\/p>\n

Now Zaka is using its experience to train voluntary groups around the world to help them cope with disasters (natural and man-made) and the aftermath of terrorist atacks.<\/p>\n

Volunteers will be act as a first response unit assisting other professional on the scene of the incident.<\/p>\n

ZAKA has already assisted after the Tsunami in Thailand, the bombing at Taba in Egypt, in Mumbai and in Namibia, a country with whom Israel does not even have diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

As UN NGO it can go anywhere in the world without invitation.<\/p>\n

ZAKA assists with the living and dead of all nations regardless of race or religion. And although it specialises in Jewish victims it makes no distinctions.<\/p>\n

Such is its work that it has even been put forward for a Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the UK parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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