One of the co-founders of the ZAKA emergency response organization has been declared a winner of the Israel Prize life achievement award for his contributions to Israeli society.
Education Ministry Yoav Gallant announces that the prize will go to Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, who for more than 30 years has headed the group he helped found in the 1990s.
In addition to Meshi-Zahav, the prize was also awarded to former Foreign Ministry director-general Joseph Chechnover, for his work in and out of the civil service.
Meshi-Zahav recently made headlines when his parents both died of COVID-19 within days of each other, less than a month after his younger brother died of another cause.
The prize committee says in a statement that Meshi-Zahav has made an “outstanding” contribution to advancing assistance at disaster events and creating unity in Israeli society while having “a sense of mission and a true belief in the need to build bridges and have a dialogue.”
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