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Police suspect ZAKA officials of helping to cover up the suspicions against the organization’s co-founder Meshi-Zahav, according to a report by Channel 13.
The report also says that Meshi-Zahav was the subject of a sex crimes investigation already in the late 1980s. It says two women complained against him, but later retracted their testimony.
“I never committed illegal acts,” Meshi-Zahav is quoted telling his confidants. “There were consenting relations with different women, but nothing was coerced and nothing was against the law.”
The ZAKA founder’s lawyer, Ephraim Dimri, tells Channel 13 that his client is prepared to cooperate with the investigation against him.
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Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of Israel s ZAKA emergency services unit, at the scene of a suicide bombing. (Flash90/File)
Seeking to deny numerous accusations against him of rape and other sexual abuse, the co-founder and chairman of the ZAKA volunteer emergency response group arrived uninvited at the police serious crimes headquarters Monday, and was turned away.
Officers at the Lahav 433 serious crime unit, who on Sunday opened an investigation into claims against Yehuda Meshi-Zahav going back decades, refused to take testimony from him, as he had yet to be summoned for questioning.
Meshi-Zahav was accused Thursday of sexual assault, rape, and abuse by six people in a report by the Haaretz daily, which said there are likely many more cases.