Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel s US correspondent based in New York
Yehuda Meshi Zahav poses for a picture in Jerusalem on January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The founder of the Zaka emergency service was found unconscious in his apartment Thursday morning after an apparent suicide attempt less than two months after bombshell reports revealed numerous allegations of rape and sexual assault against him.
Magen David Adom medics carried out resuscitation efforts on Yehuda Meshi-Zahav as they rushed him from his apartment in the Givat Ze’ev settlement to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in nearby Jerusalem.
A source familiar with matter said he tried to hang himself.
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