{"id":293919,"date":"2026-02-16T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293919\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:36:09","slug":"zaka-announces-death-of-israeli-man-in-paris-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293919\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAKA announces death of Israeli man in Paris hotel room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli man from central Israel was found dead in his hotel room in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-886319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paris<\/a> on Sunday night, ZAKA\u2019s International Division said in a statement issued Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/conferences\/article-883450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZAKA<\/a>, the man was discovered unconscious in his room, and local emergency teams pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">ZAKA said it received the report via its emergency hotline and began coordinating assistance shortly afterward. The organization did not provide details on the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Baruch Nidam, who heads ZAKA\u2019s International Division and is handling the case, said volunteers based in Paris joined local responders and began procedures \u201cto ensure the dignity of the deceased.\u201d He added that ZAKA is working together with Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/foreign-ministry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Foreign Ministry<\/a> to release the body from a local hospital and arrange transfer to Israel for burial.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information was released about the circumstances surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Nidam said the current effort is focused on completing the legal and logistical steps required to return the body to Israel \u201cfor burial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli man from central Israel was found dead in his hotel room in Paris on Sunday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3190,18263,2226,85,46,43,5368,106963],"class_list":{"0":"post-293919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-foreign-ministry","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-paris","15":"tag-zaka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}