Category Archives: Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit

Amid Operation “Shield and Arrow”, United Hatzalah Raises Alert Level

Amid IDF Operation “Shield and Arrow”, United Hatzalah is raising its level of alert and preparing for a possible security escalation in southern Israel. During a situational assessment held in the organization’s temporary Command and Control Center on Mount Meron, … Continue reading

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Palestinian man to United Hatzalah EMT: “You don’t care what our nationality is and treat us simply because you see someone in need, thank you!”

On Tuesday morning (Yom Hazikaron) just before 9:00 A.M., a collision between two Palestinian vehicles took place in the village of Umm Salamuna near Efrat. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Julian Fridman was on his way to drop off his baby … Continue reading

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Following Recent Wave of Terror Attacks, United Hatzalah Conducts Simulated Mass Casualty Incident Training Drill for Women

On Friday morning, United Hatzalah, Israel’s national volunteer-based EMS organization, held a simulated mass casualty incident (MCI) training drill that simulated a terror attack on a bus. The drill involved the response of dozens of emergency medical personnel, all of … Continue reading

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Four Months After EMT Died In Motorcycle Accident, His Widow Follows In His Footsteps and Volunteers for United Hatzalah

 Last December, Yoel Souisa Z”L, a Dimona resident and United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, was riding his ambucycle (emergency motorcycle) on Highway 25 in the Negev when he was struck by a car that carelessly inserted itself into the highway from … Continue reading

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30-Year-Old Father of Four Revived by Emergency Services in Late-Night Cardiac Arrest

On Sunday just before midnight, a 30-year-old man suffered a cardiac arrest in his house in Bnei Brak. His relatives immediately alerted emergency services. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Aharon Lerer was about to go to bed when his communications device … Continue reading

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Newlywed Couple Among First Responders At Jerusalem Car-Ramming Attack On Friday

It was an otherwise peaceful Friday in Jerusalem, a young couple, Dovi and Batya Widawsky, who had gotten married only two days prior, were getting ready for Shabbat when the day was brutally interrupted as a terrorist rammed a car … Continue reading

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The Thought That Keeps Me Going: An EMT’s First-Hand Account of the Neve Yaakov Terror Attack

By Shlomo Gurfein On Friday night, I was eating a family Shabbat dinner when I got alerted by Yosef Deshet and Chanoch Re’em, two of my fellow United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs, about a mass shooting that was taking place in … Continue reading

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Israeli Based Emergency Response Team Departs For Turkey With 25 Medical and Rescue Personnel, 10 Tons of Medical Equipment, and Humanitarian Aid

United Hatzalah of Israel sent a delegation of 25 first responders and experts in search and rescue operations together with 10 tons of medical supplies and humanitarian aid to Turkey on a special charter flight this afternoon. The chartered flight … Continue reading

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“If I Don’t Go, Who Will?”: United Hatzalah’s Neve Yaakov Team Lead Recounts Responding to The Neve Yaakov Terror Attack

By: Yehuda Cohen On Friday night a week ago, my wife and I were sitting down at the Shabbat table with our five children, surrounded by the warmth and comfort of our home. Suddenly, my communications device started beeping, alerting … Continue reading

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Woman Injured In Rock-Throwing Attack Treated By EMTs Amidst Ongoing Wave of Violence In Judea and Samaria

On Wednesday afternoon, a woman was injured when a rock was hurled at her car near the settlement of Revava in Judea and Samaria. The massive stone smashed the vehicle’s windshield and struck her arm, while her son and two … Continue reading

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