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Helping A Coworker Through a Heart Attack

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Raphael Poch

One month ago, at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Guy Ezer was at home in Northern Tel-Aviv when his communications device alerted him to a nearby medical emergency. Continue reading →

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Using Oxygen To Help Save A Drowning Man

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Raphael Poch

Mishael Nahum is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT who hails from the southern city of Ashkelon. Mishael is a core volunteer in the Ashkelon area ambucycle unit, and has been volunteering as an EMT for the past six years. The … Continue reading →

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Vacationing First Responders Save Two Lives In Separate Drowning Incidents

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Raphael Poch

Thursday evening saw two drownings happen at hotels where EMTs happened to be vacationing. The first incident occurred at the David Dead Sea Resort and Spa located at Ein Bokek when a five-year-old boy drowned in the pool. United Hatzalah … Continue reading →

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Going Above and Beyond With Pizza and Ice Cream

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Raphael Poch

Yosef Bruchim volunteers with United Hatzalah both as an EMT and as part of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit. On a recent Thursday evening, Yosef was at home in Bnei Brak eating dinner with his wife when they heard … Continue reading →

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The Boy Who Lived and Those Who Saved Him

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Raphael Poch

Last Wednesday night in the pre-dawn hours at approximately 4:30 a.m. an emergency call was received by United Hatzalah’s national dispatch and command center hotline at 1221. The call came in alerting the dispatch that a 15-year-old boy had lost … Continue reading →

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Here’s What 9 Million Shekels Look Like In EMS Vehicles

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Raphael Poch

Last week Thursday night, as Israel’s Independence Day was coming to a close, a few hundred people gathered in a banquet hall on the edge of the coastal city of Bat Yam. The banquet hall, Sunset Hall, is one of … Continue reading →

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Gush Etzion Life-Saver Celebrated During Community Awareness Event

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Raphael Poch

The story of how Efrat resident and newly minted EMT Joel Atkin saved a man’s life on a tennis court, will not quickly be forgotten by anyone in the Atkin family, nor by the man he saved, Mr. Michael Cohen … Continue reading →

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New Group Of Bedouin Women Become EMTs In Israel’s Galilee

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Raphael Poch

A new team of 13 Bedouin women and four men from the Arab towns of Shibli and Umm al-Ghanam have just completed their training to become EMS first responders and respond to medical emergencies in their vicinity. The new graduates … Continue reading →

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Toronto Mayor John Tory Commends Israeli Volunteer Emergency Medical Services

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Raphael Poch

Toronto Mayor John Tory visited Israeli volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization United Hatzalah on Wednesday evening and was impressed by what he saw. “It’s remarkable what you do here,” Tory said after receiving a brief tour and explanation of … Continue reading →

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