Israeli Zaka (Essay Sample)

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ISRAELI ZAKA
ZAKA is a Hebrew abbreviation meaning Zihuy Korbanot Aso, simply meaning "Disaster Victim Identification." It’s a group of people doing volunteer work responding to emergency issues such as disasters. The ZAKA organization was officially founded in the year 1989 in the Israeli Nation. Their main intention was to deal with terror attacks, and also deal with retrieval, identification, and burying the deceased victims from such attacks. Since ZAKA group was formed, it has expanded its functions to become the World’s largest search and rescue of humanitarian organization (Cole & Leonard, 23).
ZAKA have been recommended by different people to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, for example, a member of parliament from British recommended for such nomination in the year 2003. This push made the United Nations to identify ZAKA as International Rescue Unit as an International Volunteer in 2005. Since the UN recognition, most countries and Unions had requested for ZAKAs help on many emergency disasters that have been arising from different states (Cole & Leonard, 27).
Majority members of ZAKA are comprised of Jews. The founding fathers of ZAKA prefer it to be called Chesed shel Eme literary meaning "Grace of God" due to the fact that they bury the deceased bodies of Jews according to the "Halakha" which is the Jews law. Among the divisions of ZAKA comprises the mortuary Unit, medical unit, search and rescue unit, missing person unit, dive units, rapid response unit among unmentioned others (Cohen, Miri, Roni, and Maya, 12).
To conclude, in the USA, such an organization like ZAKA doesn’t exist. This can be well explained on how ZAKA over the years have helped the USA in emergency cases such as the USA plane air crash and the ...