Volunteer Healing and Resilience Unit

Explore and support ZAKA's Healing and Resilience Unit where volunteers who respond to traumatic scenes of terror attacks and catastrophes, receive specialized care to recover and build resilience for themselves and their families.

Here, you'll be able to listen to volunteers who stepped forward and discover the programs you can enable to support them.

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Helping Volunteers Recover

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Individual Trauma Therapy

  • Duration: 24 Sessions
  • Participants per Session: 1 Volunteer
  • Associated Costs: $2,560/Volunteer

Wilderness Recovery and Resilience Workshop: Metzoke Dragot

  • Duration: 2 Days
  • Participants per Session: 24 Volunteers
  • Associated Costs: $680/Volunteer

Individual VR-Enhanced Trauma Therapy

  • Duration: 4 Months, 1-2 Sessions/Week
  • Participants per Session: 1 Volunteer
  • Associated Costs: $1,500/Volunteer

Social-Experiential Resilience Workshop

  • Duration: 1 Day
  • Participants per Session: 24 Volunteers
  • Associated Costs: $175/Volunteer

Family Support Workshop

  • Duration: 1 Day
  • Participants per Session: 24 Spouses
  • Associated Costs: $155/Person

Psychological First Aid

  • Immediate psychological first aid following high-stress events.

Experiential Resilience Program: Diving

  • Duration: 2 Days
  • Participants per Session: 6 Volunteers
  • Associated Costs: $500/Volunteer

Experiential Resilience Program: Horsemanship

  • Duration: 10 Sessions
  • Participants per Session: 10 Volunteers
  • Associated Costs: $1,160/Volunteer

Nurith Cohn's Story

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Everything I see is through a lens of that day... I'm always monitoring: is this affecting me, is my blood pressure going up, is my pulse going up... It took me five months before the first tears came... All of us who were there need help, and it's not going to go away. — Nurith Cohn, ZAKA Volunteer

A 7-minute interview with Nurith Cohn, taking us through the experience of responding to the scenes of October 7th—the lens through which she now sees everything.

While listening, you can also review the current commitment appreciation tokens:

A choice to donate $1,000 or more is honored with:

Limited-edition Iron-Swords ZAKA medal

Limited-Edition Medal

Iron-Swords ZAKA Edition Certificate of Authenticity & Quality
Size: 60mm / 1.97 inches Weight: 68-gram / 2.4 ounces Material: Silver plated zinc alloy Designer: Temple Coins Made in Israel using Israeli-sourced materials

A choice to donate $1,800 or more is honored with:

Limited-edition collection featuring a signed ZAKA stamp, pin, necklace and folder

Limited-Edition Collection

Signed and Certified Israel-Post ZAKA Stamp Commemorative Remembrance Necklace: "Never Again. Never Forget." ZAKA Pin Souvenir Leaf and Folder
Edition of 800 Sets
Back a Volunteer
Individual Trauma Therapy
(24 Sessions)
Associated Costs: $2,560/Volunteer
monthy donation
$36 $72 $90 $108 $216 $
Fully backs a volunteer if kept active for 72 months

Eli Hazen's Story

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We've seen terrorist attacks and bus bombings over the past 20 years, but never anything of this magnitude... These scenes have taken a tremendous toll... Each one of us has memories that stick with him... We all need proper treatment; We need to get our thoughts and feelings together to continue functioning. — Eli Hazen, ZAKA Volunteer

A 3-minute interview with Eli Hazen.

The emotional toll on ZAKA volunteers is immense.

The resilience unit provides crucial mental health support to help them cope.

Your contribution can make a significant difference in their well-being.

Back a Volunteer
Individual VR-Enhanced Trauma Therapy
(4 Months, 1-2 Sessions/Week)
Associated Costs: $1,500/Volunteer
monthy donation
$36 $72 $90 $108 $216 $
Fully backs a volunteer if kept active for 42 months

Simcha Greiniman's Account

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Think about what happens to a volunteer after responding to that scene; how much pain it brings... We need to make sure that every volunteer is strong and healthy. The volunteer, and his family. — Simcha Greiniman, ZAKA Volunteer

A 2-minute account by Simcha Greiniman.

Workshops and activities, from resilience training to immersive therapy, are designed to help volunteers recover and continue their vital work.

Your donation will help fund these programs, to achieve the goals of building long-term resilience, ensuring mental recovery, and maintaining the strength of ZAKA’s volunteer community.

Back a Volunteer
Wilderness Recovery and Resilience Workshop: Metzoke Dragot
(2 Days)
Associated Costs: $680/Volunteer
one-time donation
$170 $340 $680 $
backs 25% for a volunteer

Valeria Dyksztejn's Account

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…I don't need these pictures, I have everything in my mind. — Valeria Dyksztejn, ZAKA Volunteer

ZAKA volunteer Valeria Dyksztejn shares her harrowing first-hand account in conversation with Lizzy Savetsky.

Please consider becoming a partner with a donation.

Your support will help volunteers and their families recover, build resilience, and continue their missions of True Loving-Kindness.

Thank you!