ZAKA

==International rescue & recovery operations==
In late 2004 and early 2005, members of ZAKA provided assistance in [[Thailand]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[India]] and [[Indonesia]] in the aftermath of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]]. Forensic teams reportedly dubbed the group "the team that sleeps with the dead" because they toiled nearly 24 hours a day at Buddhist pagodas in Thailand that had been transformed into morgues to identify those who died in the tsunami. The experience of ZAKA members, who reportedly see 38 bodies a week on average in Israel, helped the Israeli forensic team to identify corpses faster than many of the other forensic teams that operated in Thailand in the aftermath of the disaster, which placed them in high demand with grieving families.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-01-08 |title=Israelis bring skills at identifying bodies |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Israelis-bring-skills-at-identifying-bodies/2005/01/07/1104832310176.html |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |language=en |archive-date=1 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301110542/http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/Israelis-bring-skills-at-identifying-bodies/2005/01/07/1104832310176.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2007, ZAKA sent a 10-person search and rescue team, consisting primarily of rescue divers, to Paris to search for a missing Israeli defense official. The mission was funded by the Defense Ministry at an expected cost of $80,000.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lis |first=Jonathan |date=18 February 2007 |title=ZAKA rescue team to search for defense official missing in France |work=[[Haaretz]] |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827237.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829174354/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827237.html |archive-date=29 August 2008}}</ref>

In November 2008, ZAKA volunteers went to [[Mumbai]], [[India]] following [[2008 Mumbai attacks|terrorist attacks]] that included a [[Nariman House|Jewish center]] among its targets.{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Following the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]], a six-man ZAKA International [[Search and Rescue]] Unit delegation arrived in [[Haiti]] to assist with search and recovery efforts. Working with the Mexican military delegation and Jewish volunteers from Mexico, eight students trapped under the rubble of the collapsed eight-storey Port-au-Prince University building were rescued on the first day after their arrival.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Julian |first=Hana Levi |date=14 January 2010 |title=One Israeli Missing in Haiti |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/135528 |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=[[Israel National News]] |archive-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012202302/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/135528 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=8 saved during "Shabbat from hell" |work=[[ISRAEL21c]] |url=http://www.israel21c.org/briefs/8-saved-during-qshabbat-from-hellq |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119072338/http://www.israel21c.org/briefs/8-saved-during-qshabbat-from-hellq |archive-date=19 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Amit |date=2010-01-17 |title=ZAKA mission to Haiti 'proudly desecrating Shabbat' |language=en |work=[[Ynetnews]] |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835327,00.html |access-date=2023-10-12 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109014058/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835327,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Teams of ZAKA volunteers were sent to [[Japan]] in March 2011 to assist in search-and-rescue after the devastating [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|earthquake and subsequent tsunami]].<ref name="japan">{{cite news |date=11 March 2011 |title=Israel team of volunteers to help with search and rescue efforts in Japan - Haaretz Daily Newspaper |work=[[Haaretz]] |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/israel-team-of-volunteers-to-help-with-search-and-rescue-efforts-in-japan-1.348614 |access-date=13 March 2011 |archive-date=13 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313085929/http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/israel-team-of-volunteers-to-help-with-search-and-rescue-efforts-in-japan-1.348614 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A ZAKA team was part of an Israeli mission to [[Nepal]] in late April 2015 to help search for casualties in the aftermath of the [[April 2015 Nepal earthquake|earthquake and subsequent avalanches]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.matzav.com/200-israeli-soldiers-dispatched-to-nepal|title=200 Israeli soldiers dispatched to Nepal|date=26 April 2015|work=The Matzav Network (matzav.com)|access-date=27 April 2015|archive-date=29 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429191103/http://matzav.com/200-israeli-soldiers-dispatched-to-nepal|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2017, a team of ZAKA volunteers participated in the response to earthquake in [[Port-au-Prince]], Haiti.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Levy |first1=Amit |date=2010-01-17 |title=ZAKA mission to Haiti 'proudly desecrating Shabbat' |language=en |website=[[Ynetnews]] |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835327,00.html |access-date=2019-03-29 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109014058/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835327,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In January 2019, a ZAKA team deployed in [[Brazil]] to conduct search and rescue operations following a [[Brumadinho dam disaster|dam collapse in Brumadinho]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 January 2019 |title=ZAKA, IDF leave on rescue mission to Brazil - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/ZAKA-IDF-leave-on-rescue-mission-to-Brazil-578793 |access-date=2019-03-29 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |archive-date=13 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013004618/https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/zaka-idf-leave-on-rescue-mission-to-brazil-578793 |url-status=live }}</ref>