ZAKA

A 13-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy, who celebrated his first Tefillin ceremony in Israel just last month, was killed in a car crash in England while returning home from Belgium with his family, just days before he was meant to mark his Bar Mitzvah alongside his twin brother. ZAKA emergency volunteers worked with British authorities to enable a swift religious burial without autopsy, as the grieving family grapples with the devastating loss of their young son.