Category Archives: Women Volunteers

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

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Elias Romano

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

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Elias Romano

 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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Woman with end-stage cancer fulfills her wish and graduates from EMT training course

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Elias Romano

Last week, Omer Rotem, a 44-year-old resident of Midreshet Ben Gurion in the Negev, graduated from United Hatzalah’s EMT training course. It was a moving moment for her, as it is for the dozens of other Israelis who graduate from … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Elias Romano

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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As Winter Surge Overwhelms Emergency Rooms, Ted Arison Family Foundation Helps Emergency Room Relief Project

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Elias Romano

As winter continues to bring a surge of patients to already overcrowded emergency rooms around the world, and specifically in Israel, one foundation is helping to facilitate a viable long-term solution to the congestion and strain that is being placed … Continue reading →

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Husband and Wife EMTs Perform CPR On Electrocuted Construction Worker in Ashkelon

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Elias Romano

On Monday afternoon, a 23-year-old construction worker was electrocuted at a construction site on Dorif Street in Ashkelon and sustained severe injuries, and lost consciousness. Worried eyewitnesses called emergency medical services for help. David and Atara Hajaj, a husband and … Continue reading →

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United Hatzalah Ambulance Driver Injured in Palestinian Rock Throwing-Attack Treated By Muslim Volunteer From East Jerusalem

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Elias Romano

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and ambulance driver Rachel Chuna was injured on Thursday morning when Arab terrorists threw rocks at vehicles on a highway outside of the Arab village of Tuqu’ in Gush Etzion. Rachel was driving a United Hatzalah … Continue reading →

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Modi’in Man Collapses In Commercial Area, Is Revived Within Minutes By Security Personnel and First Responders

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Elias Romano

On Tuesday afternoon just before 2:00 P.M., passersby called for help after a man in his 60s collapsed and lost consciousness outside a store on HaShdera HaMerkazit in Modi’in. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Pnina Peretz was working from home a … Continue reading →

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Baby with a Rare Breathing Disability Successfully Transported from Israel to Florida, to Undergo Lifesaving Procedure

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Elias Romano

On Monday afternoon, United Hatzalah Operations Department received a special request from volunteer Dr. Shlomo Gensler to transfer a one-month-old baby girl from Schneider Children’s Medical Center to Ben Gurion Airport for an urgent medical flight. The infant needed to … Continue reading →

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Muslim EMT Who Saved Jewish Child From Choking Recognized by Mayor of Jerusalem 

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Elias Romano

Several weeks ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Rania Abu Shaba’an stopped at the Azrieli Mall in Modi’in to have lunch with her daughter. While walking to the food court, she heard a woman screaming for help. Rania ran towards the … Continue reading →

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