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September 11, 2019, 4:57 pm

Remains of second Israeli victim of Ethiopian Airlines crash identified

Body confirmed to be of Avraham Matsliah, 6 months after he and fellow Israeli Shimon Reem were killed when plane went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa to Nairobi

By TOI staff

Rescue forces searching for a swimmer who went missing in the sea off Tel Aviv on August 20, 2019. (Flash90)

August 20, 2019, 12:02 pm

Body of swimmer swept away from Tel Aviv beach found

Police and others conducted major search operation after ultra-Orthodox father from Jerusalem went missing during late-night dip

By Stuart Winer

Workers use discarded plastic to pick up debris from the scene where an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff last month, killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia in April 2019. (Courtesy)

June 26, 2019, 10:34 pm

Remains of Israeli victim of March’s Ethiopian Airlines crash identified

Netanyahu thanks his Ethiopian counterpart for efforts to help rescuers, says body of Shimon Reem to be returned to Israel, search to continue to find Avraham Matsliah

By TOI staff

ZAKA volunteers perform the final rites before burying the remains of Holocaust victims at a cemetery just outside Brest, Belarus, on May 22, 2019. (Uladz Hrydzin, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via AP)

May 22, 2019, 6:47 pm

Remains of 1,214 Holocaust victims laid to rest in Belarus

Bones and personal items re-interred after unearthed by construction workers in city of Brest; building work on site of former Jewish ghetto to restart despite protests

By AP and TOI staff

Rescuers at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight crash south of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 11, 2019. (AP /Mulugeta Ayene)

April 24, 2019, 12:00 pm

Weeks after plane crash, Ethiopia still blocking access to victims’ remains

Relative of one of the 157 killed in the crash says impact site left in disarray, with belongings and remains scattered on the ground, exposed to the elements

By Judah Ari Gross

Firefighters and paramedics at the scene of the house fire, Arnona, Jerusalem, April 8, 2019. (ZAKA)

April 8, 2019, 6:57 pm

Man dies of smoke inhalation after Jerusalem house fire

Firefighters and paramedics rescue man from burning building, but hospital pronounces him dead on arrival

By TOI staff

A boy looks as forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near a pile of twisted airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian airways operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 16, 2019 at Hama Quntushele village near Bishoftu in Oromia region. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP)

March 18, 2019, 12:38 pm

Police team dispatched to Ethiopia crash site to search for Israelis’ remains

Israeli delegation includes crime scene investigators, DNA analysts and dentists as local authorities say identification of victims may take 6 months

By TOI staff

Workers collect clothes and other materials, under the instruction of investigators, at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia on March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

March 13, 2019, 9:04 pm

Netanyahu talks to Ethiopian PM as Israel pushes for access to plane crash site

PM and other Israeli diplomats are working to get permission from Addis Ababa authorities for ZAKA team to search wreckage for bodies of Israeli victims

By TOI staff and Agencies

ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav (2L) gives the Israel team a final briefing before they depart for Ethiopia, March 10, 2018. (Courtesy)

March 11, 2019, 7:51 am

ZAKA dispatches team to search for Israelis killed in Ethiopia plane crash

Emergency responders head to Addis Ababa to help local authorities comb through wreckage of crash that killed 157

By TOI staff and Agencies

A ZAKA diver describes the search for remains of Holocaust survivors in the Danube River in Hungary to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in January 2019. (Courtesy of ZAKA)

January 16, 2019, 6:38 pm

No remains of Holocaust victims unearthed in sweep of the Danube

Rabbi from Jewish search and rescue group says sonar scans of Budapest river find nothing; second scan planned

By Cnaan Liphshiz

November 25, 2018, 1:08 am

Toronto play puts spotlight on morality of Israel’s ZAKA rescue organization

Solo performance centers on volunteer group’s decision to treat Jewish terror victims before aiding attack perpetrators — regardless of severity of injuries

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Border Police officers at the scene of a stabbing attack at a police station in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on November 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

November 14, 2018, 10:59 pm

4 policemen lightly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack

Assailant shot, wounded while carrying out assault at entrance to police station in south of city; one of the officers apparently hurt by friendly fire

By TOI staff and Jacob Magid

Police officers walk outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting yesterday in Pittsburgh, October 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

October 28, 2018, 7:57 pm

Jewish volunteers enter Pittsburgh synagogue to prepare bodies for burial

City police allow ZAKA into Tree of Life building before transferring remains to medical examiner’s office

By JTA

An illustrative photo from the Hiriya landfill site southeast of Tel Aviv. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

May 9, 2018, 6:24 pm

Man dies after falling into garbage compactor

Preliminary investigation suggests Rehovot death was an accident; victim said to work in waste management for city

By Jacob Magid

The funeral procession in Jerusalem on April 5, 2018, for a one-month old baby who drowned in a hotel jacuzzi in Ashdod. (Screen capture/Walla)

April 5, 2018, 8:10 pm

Haredi radicals grab body of drowned baby from ambulance during funeral

Zaka emergency service says one of its medics beaten by mob as infant who drowned in Jacuzzi buried following court-ordered autopsy, carried out despite ultra-Orthodox protests

By TOI staff