Four Israelis who help collect and identify body parts after suicide bombings are in Houston to help find the remains of the seven astronauts who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia. The four, volunteers in the ZAKA organization, arrived in Houston on Monday. ZAKA is a Hebrew acronym for “identifying disaster victims.”
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