(Haipo) – On Saturday night, July 25, 2026, a report was received at the ZAKA 1220 hotline about a man who was found lifeless in his apartment on Arlozorov Street in Haifa. He was a homeless man who lived alone, and his body was apparently discovered several days after his death. ZAKA Northern District volunteers were called to the scene and treated the deceased with dignity.
Neighbors smelled a bad odor and called the emergency services.
Israel Lazar, a Northern District ZAKA volunteer who attended the scene, said that the man lived alone. According to him, neighbors who smelled a bad odor called the emergency services, who broke down the door of the apartment and discovered the deceased in an advanced state of decomposition. Apparently, the man died several days before he was found. Northern District ZAKA volunteers worked at the scene with respect for the deceased and collected all the findings, in order to bring him to a dignified burial.
ZAKA warns of alarming increase in decay cases in the north
Rabbi Anshel Friedman, commander of the Northern District ZAKA, said that in recent times there has been a worrying increase in the number of cases of decay in the northern region. "Repeatedly, we encounter people who die in their homes and are only discovered days later. This is a painful reality that requires us all to be vigilant and maintain contact with family members, neighbors and people who live alone," Friedman said.
Calling on the public to show responsibility and mutual guarantee
Moti Bookchin, a spokesman for ZAKA, added that the difficult case in Haifa joins a series of decay cases that ZAKA volunteers are handling across the country. Bookchin called on the public to show responsibility and mutual guarantee towards family members, neighbors and people living alone. "A phone call or a knock on the door may prevent a situation in which a person is discovered only days after his death," said Bookchin.
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Mutual guarantee? Whose exactly? The ground floor tenant whose dog barks all day? Yes, it's Arlozorov 47. I live across the street, not far from there. The population that came to live in the area is the last one interested in mutual guarantees. Unfortunately, drug dealers, women traffickers, and the underworld destroyed the street.