‘We prepare for the tragedies we pray will never come’

There is a paradox at the heart of emergency response: The better you prepare, the less visible that preparation becomes.A rescue team that arrives in time looks like it simply arrived in time. Equipment that works when needed looks like it was always there. A communications system that functions during a crisis seems obvious.None of it is. It is the product of years of training, investment and preparation.As Rosh Hashanah approaches, that reality is especially meaningful.The Jewish New Year asks us to look back at the year that passed and forward to the year ahead. For ZAKA Search & Rescue, 5786 tested both our preparedness and our ability to grow.Our volunteers responded to more than 10,000 incidents across the State of Israel, including missile and drone attacks, terror attacks, building collapses, accidents, drownings and searches for missing people. And behind every incident was a human story.Someone who did not come…

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