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Being There To Help Before An Ambulance
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shir Caspi is one of the most active EMTs in her area. Shir rides an emergency E-bike in order to arrive at medical emergencies and provide assistance as fast as she can. One recent evening, Shir was relaxing at home when she received an alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch Center alerting Read more
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Psychotrauma Training An Asset For First Responder On Medical Calls
Gil Cohen Lives in Netanya and is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and an experienced Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit responder. He finds his psychotrauma training invaluable even when responding to regular medical emergencies. Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit members treat man after a traumatic incident. (Illustration)One recent morning at 11:00 am, Gil was Read more
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Giving the Gift That Keeps on Giving
Amir Hayek, is an I.T. specialist, a volunteer in a French Christian religious hospice called The Sacred Heart, or Sacre Coeur, and a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and ambucycle driver. Hayek, an Israeli Christian, chose to volunteer at the convent for the same reason he volunteers for United Hatzalah- he loves to help people. Both Read more
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Daughter’s Rescue Leads A Father To Become An EMT
Two years ago, Hila Zohar, aged 17 at the time, fell off of the roof of her home in Or Yehuda after she suffered a seizure. The fall, more than 8 meters, caused a serious head injury, massive bleeding and complete loss of consciousness. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Yosefov, who lives in the same Read more
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Training Foreign Workers To Be Initial Responders During Medical Emergencies
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 of geriatric and home care, to provide immediate first aid treatment to the people they Read more
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A Kindergarten Rescue – All In a Day’s Work
Hilah Reinkoff is a supervisor of early education and is in charge of overseeing the educational quality and content. She also supervises over the daily operations of a series of daycares in the around Kiryat Gat. In addition to her regular job, she is a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah. Last Sunday, Reinkoff was Read more
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United Hatzalah Holds Mass-Casualty-Incident Training Drill in Conjunction With Israeli police, Jerusalem Soccer Team
(This article was originally written by Eliana Rudee and published on the JNS website🙂 In conjunction with the Israeli police and the Beitar Yerushalayim soccer team, United Hatzalah hosted a large-scale training drill on Monday at Teddy Stadium to simulate a mass-casualty incident in the stadium and the proper treatment of multiple victims at the Read more
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Getting Off a Bus To Save A Life
Monday started out as a regular morning for Avi Vilman, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT from Bnei Brak. He got up, went about his normal morning routine and headed out to morning prayers at sunrise. When he finished his prayers, he got on a bus to go to work at the Fire Commissioner’s Office where Read more
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Jewish Music Stars Help Raise More Than $1,000,000 In Support of United Hatzalah at Annual Benefit Concert
Three Jewish Music superstars, Avraham Fried, Mordechai Shapiro, and Simcha Leiner wowed the gathered crowd of more than 3,000 people at the annual United Hatzalah benefit concert that took place in Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’Uma International Convention Center on Thursday night. The trio sang some of their greatest hits as well as some new songs which Read more
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EMTs Perform Successful CPR On Woman 39 Weeks Pregnant – Save Mom And Baby
On Motzei Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Aharon Avital, Tomer Tzenani, Yossi Cohen, Naftali Friedman, Adi Avivi, and Lior Filshteiner were summoned to the home of Yaron and Limor Golan in Hod Hasharon. Limor had just suffered a heart attack. To complicate matters more, Limor was 39 weeks pregnant when the heart Read more