ZAKA Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Organization== Its volunteers are almost all ultra-Orthodox Jews.<ref name="BBC" /> However as of 2010, more than 125 Muslim, Druze, and Bedouin volunteers provided services to non-Jewish victims.<ref name="JTA1" /> In 2010, ZAKA volunteers numbered 1,500.<ref name="JTA1">{{cite web |url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/21/2739261/zaka-expanding-arab-units |title=ZAKA expanding Arab units |author=Amy Klein |date=2010-05-21 |publisher=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency|JTA]] |access-date=2010-07-06 |archive-date=24 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924101415/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/21/2739261/zaka-expanding-arab-units |url-status=live }}</ref> The organization says it employs around 4,000 volunteers, though an 2022 investigation by ''[[Haaretz]]'', based on "documents and testimonies by senior figures in the organization", said there were fewer than 1,000 volunteers, alleged that the numbers were inflated to increase funding, and found volunteers who said they had not received the biannual training mandated by the Interior Ministry.<ref name="Haaretz22">{{cite news |author=Breiner |first=Josh |date=18 December 2022 |title=Zaka Jerusalem Inflated Data, and Got Millions of Shekels as a Result |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-12-18/ty-article/.premium/zaka-jerusalem-inflated-data-and-got-millions-of-shekels-as-a-result/00000185-2201-dcb5-abe7-eaaf36070000 |url-status=live |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218071800/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-12-18/ty-article/.premium/zaka-jerusalem-inflated-data-and-got-millions-of-shekels-as-a-result/00000185-2201-dcb5-abe7-eaaf36070000 |archive-date=18 December 2022}}</ref> ZAKA denied the report.<ref name="Haaretz22" /> In 2017, its annual operating budget was about one million shekels.<ref>[https://zaka-israel.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%96%D7%9F-2017.pdf Zaka 2017 Financial Declaration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109005220/https://zaka-israel.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%96%D7%9F-2017.pdf|date=9 January 2021}} (Hebrew), December 2017 (hosted on the official website).</ref> [[The New York Times]] reported a membership of "more than 3,000 volunteers, most of them ultra-Orthodox Jewish men" in 2024.<ref name=":0" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page