Port-au-Prince, Haiti - March 7, 2010 12:31PM
After a month of continuous recovery work to locate the body of the missing Canadian Jewish businessman Alexander (Shmuel) Bitton who was believed buried under the rubble of the Montana Hotel, ZAKA volunteers have recovered a body with the passport of the missing Canadian in his clothes.
Rotating teams of ZAKA volunteers worked over the last month at the site of the Montana Hotel together with an American recovery delegation sent to the site to retrieve the bodies of 17 Americans known to have been in the hotel at the time of its collapse. Thanks to the coordination of the Israeli ... more
| Jerusalem, Israel - February 3, 2010 5:43PM 
Missing Canadian Jewish businessman Alexander (Shmuel) Bitton |
Three ZAKA volunteers left Israel yesterday for Haiti to participate in the search for the body of the missing Canadian Jewish businessman Alexander (Shmuel) Bitton, believed to be buried under the rubble of the five-storey Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
Other ZAKA volunteers were involved in the unsuccessful search for the missing Canadian in the first few days after the quake, working together with the IDF Home Front Command. They dug a tunnel through the rubble in the direction of the hotel lobby, in an attempt to reach the reception computers and possibly locate the number of his hotel bedroom. However, ... more
| Jerusalem, Israel - February 3, 2010 5:32PM 
ZAKA volunteer Mati Goldstein makes a presentation to Governor of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto |
The Governor of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, in Israel as head of a Mexican government delegation, met today at his request with the team of ZAKA volunteers who recently assisted in the recovery mission at the site of the helicopter crash in Mexico City earlier this month in which Mexican businessman Moises Saba and family were killed. The ZAKA delegation left Mexico for the Haiti quake disaster immediately after completing their work at the crash site, flying with the Mexican delegation to Port-au-Prince.
During the meeting, attended by the ZAKA International Rescue Unit head Mati Goldstein, the Governor expressed his gratitude ... more
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