Tag Archives: First Aid

Helping Others Learn How To Help Themselves

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Raphael Poch

By Avishai Levkovitz My name is Avishai Levkovitz and I am a social worker. I have been volunteering with United Hatzalah as part of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit (PCRU) for a short time now and I was asked … Continue reading →

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I Saved My Sister’s Life Thanks To a First Aid Course I Took With The Ten Kavod Project

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Elias Romano

My name is Moriah Dorfman. I am an 18-year-old girl from Bat Yam and I recently saved the life of my 6-year-old sister. This past June I completed a first-aid course that I took through United Hatzalah as part of … Continue reading →

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Tzfat Man Resuscitated After Collapsing at Home In Front of His Wife

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Raphael Poch

Just after midnight on Monday morning, a man in his late 20s was at his home on Yoseftal Street in Tzfat preparing to go to bed, when he suddenly collapsed. The man was in good health with no pre-existing medical … Continue reading →

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Septuagenarian Collapses Outside Government Office In Be’er Sheva, Saved By EMT Who Worked in the Building

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Raphael Poch

 Just after 12:00 p.m. on Monday, a man in his 70s was walking down Herzl Boulevard in Be’er Sheva outside the Inspection Offices of City Hall when he suddenly collapsed. Worried passersby who saw the man collapse assumed that he … Continue reading →

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Leaving Prayers To Heal Trauma, Both Physical and Racial

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Raphael Poch

On Monday morning, just after 7:00 a.m., Daniel Katzenstein, a United Hatzalah volunteer who works at United Hatzalah’s offices, was in his local synagogue in the Neve Ya’akov neighborhood of Jerusalem, when his emergency communications device began to ring. Just … Continue reading →

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Preparing To Meet With A New Client – But Saving a Life Instead

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Raphael Poch

On Monday, at 3:58 PM, Tom Eisenman​, who works as the Director of Business Development for Cause Match Israel, was sitting in the company’s Jerusalem office. He was preparing for a 4 PM Zoom meeting with a new prospective client … Continue reading →

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Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel raised $15 million at the second annual Los Angeles Gala event with Keynote Address by Dr. Miriam Adelson

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Raphael Poch

Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel (www.israelrescue.org) hosted the 2nd Annual Gala in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 27th, 2020 with over 1,100 people in attendance. The gathered crowd contributed to the success of the organization by … Continue reading →

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United Hatzalah and Nurofen To Train 500 Residents of Sderot in First Aid

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Raphael Poch

United Hatzalah has teamed up with Nurofen for Children and it has set a goal to train 500 parents and residents of Sderot in providing basic first aid to their families and neighbors in the case of a medical emergency. … Continue reading →

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Training Foreign Workers To Be Initial Responders During Medical Emergencies

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Raphael Poch

A new project has been created by United Hatzalah, together with Hakeren, the Israel Foreign Workers Fund, that will significantly contribute to saving more lives. The project aims to train foreign workers located in Israel who work in the field … Continue reading →

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Woman saves her own daughter two days after graduating safe-family first-aid course

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Raphael Poch

When Lital Halperin participated in United Hatzalah’s first-aid course two weeks ago, she did not know that only two days after finishing the course she would need the training to save her own daughter’s life. Lital is a mother of … Continue reading →

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