Israel’s volunteer emergency relief service was accused of defrauding foreign donors. In an expose published this week, the local Israeli newspaper Kol Hazman reported that in at least one case Zaka switched donor stickers on one of its ambulances so it could claim that the same vehicle had been paid for by two separate groups, the Israel Humanitarian Foundation and a Jewish school in California.
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