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ZAKA ((ヘブライ語:זק"א), abbreviation for ''Zihuy Korbanot Ason'', Hebrew: זיהוי קרבנות אסון, literally: ''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 officially recognized by the government. The full name is "ZAKA - Identification, Extraction and Rescue - True Kindness" ((ヘブライ語:זק"א - איתור חילוץ והצלה - חסד של אמת)). Members of ZAKA, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, assist ambulance crews, aid in the identification of the victims of terrorism, road accidents and other disasters, and where necessary gather body parts and spilled blood for proper burial. They also provide first aid and rescue services, and help with the search for missing persons and participate in international rescue and recovery operations. The founders and members of ZAKA prefer to call the organization and their work ''Chesed shel Emet'' (חסד של אמת - "Grace of truth"), because they are dedicated to ensuring that the bodies of Jewish victims are buried according to Halakha, Jewish law. After acts of terrorism, ZAKA volunteers also collect the bodies and body parts of non-Jews, including suicide bombers, for return to their families. The phrase ''Chesed shel Emet'' refers to doing "kindness" for the benefit of the deceased, which is considered to be "true kindness", because the (deceased) beneficiaries of the kindness cannot return the kindness. ==History== The organization preceding ZAKA started when a group of volunteers under the leadership of Rabbi Elazar Gelbstein gathered to assist in the recovery of human remains from a terrorist attack on bus line 405 in Israel in 1989. The ZAKA network was set up in the early 1990s. The Jerusalem ZAKA organization was founded in the 1990s by Yehuda Meshi Zahav and Rabbi Moshe Aizenbach and Rabbi Zvika Rosental, the Director of ZAKA Tel Aviv, as a non-profit organization in addition to its police status. This arrangement succeeded the ZAKA organization founded by Rabbi Gelbstein in 1989. In 1995 the newly organized ZAKA were officially recognized by the Israeli government and now work closely with the Israel Police in the identification of disaster victims. ZAKA activity expanded rapidly during the al-Aqsa Intifada (from September 2000), when frequent terrorist suicide bombings created many scenes of disaster, with the remains and body parts of many victims strewn around bombing sites. In 2004, a group of ZAKA volunteers flew to The Hague, Netherlands, with the wreckage of the bus destroyed in the Jerusalem bus suicide bombing on January 29, 2004. The wreckage, along with pictures of 950 victims of Palestinian terrorism, was taken to Washington DC to urge the United States government to act against Palestinian terrorism.〔''(Suicide bombing of Egged bus no. 19 in Jerusalem )''. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. January 29, 2004. Retrieved April 6, 2008.〕 The bus was later displayed at various US universities.〔''(Bombed Israeli Bus on Display at Duke Oct. 12-13 )'', Duke University News and Communications, October 11, 2004〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ZAKA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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