Tag Archives: Terror Attack

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

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Elias Romano

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

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Elias Romano

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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Terror Strikes Jerusalem: An EMT’s Harrowing Account of the Neve Yaakov Terror Attack

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Elias Romano

By Yosef Deshet It was a peaceful Friday night after the Shabbat meal when my son and I stepped out of the house in order to go learn Torah together in the local synagogue. A few moments after we left … Continue reading →

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Report from eyewitnesses to the synagogue shooting and City of David shooting in Jerusalem

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Elias Romano

Jerusalem synagogue shooting: ————————————- On Friday night at 8:16 P.M., United Hatzalah’s Command and Dispatch Center received reports of several injuries following a shooting incident that took place on Neve Yaakov street in Jerusalem at the entrance to a local … Continue reading →

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On the First Anniversary of His Murder, Ambucycle Donated In Memory of Oleh, IDF Veteran and Western Wall Guide Killed In a Terror Attack

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Elias Romano

In a moving ceremony in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning, a commemorative plaque was unveiled and a new emergency medical service vehicle was dedicated in memory of Eliyahu (Eli) Dovid Kay, who was killed exactly one year ago in … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Eli Kay

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Raphael Poch

During a special memorial that took place on Monday evening, the second night of Chanukah, the family of terror victim Eli Kay participated in the candle lighting ceremony at the Western Wall together with some of the first responders who … Continue reading →

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Focusing On What Unites Us and Not What Divides Us

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Raphael Poch

Last night, there was a terror attack in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. A terrorist who was described as a young teenager stabbed two police officers, a male and a female, near the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva. … Continue reading →

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Attending The Wedding Of The Soldier He Saved Six Years Prior

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Raphael Poch

On a Wednesday, October 21st, 2015, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Michael Cohen was on his way home to the town of Adam from Jerusalem, on his ambucycle, when his communications device alerted him to a medical emergency that occurred just … Continue reading →

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EMS and Checkpoint Security Teams Hold Terror Attack Drill in Tarkumiah

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Raphael Poch

United Hatzalah first response volunteers participated in a training drill with the Crossing Points Authority (CPA) security team and the Fire Department that simulated a series of terror attacks against the Tarkumiah checkpoint on Wednesday. The drill simulated a shooting … Continue reading →

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