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Yossi Landau, who leads volunteers with the Israeli organization ZAKA, which assists in identifications after accidents, disasters and bombings, said his group deployed a crew to the site to assist with burial preparation. It’s a race against the clock, since Jewish tradition also says burials must be timely. In the Jewish faith, the whole body and all its parts, including limbs, blood and tissue, must be collected in preparation for burial. Bodies should not be left overnight or exposed in the open as they are considered to be made in the image of G•d.