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Doing Well By Doing Good
On Thursday night, in the Tel Aviv convention center, WeWork held their bi-annual Creator Awards presentation in Israel. Entrepreneur Assaf Luxembourg who was heavily involved in the promotion and success of the MyMDband wrist strap received a creator award from the multi-national company whose estimated value is more than $20 billion. The MyMDband is a Read more
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EMTs Leave Their Own Lecture To Save A Life
My name is Jonathan Chiche and I am a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT as well as the head of the French division of the organization. I was invited today by a friend of United Hatzalah, Axel Reby, to speak in front of a French delegation of the Women’s Zionist Organization (WIZO) in Netanya. During my Read more
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Saving Lives Together to Build Our Communities
Last Thursday night an emergency alert went out on the radio network of United Hatzalah from the organization’s dispatch center in Jerusalem, notifying all of the EMS personnel in the Mevaseret region to an emergency taking place in Kibbutz Tzuba. I together with Tomer Nuni, and his wife Shlomit, who is also a volunteer Read more
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Emergency E-Bike Stolen Over Sukkot Returned to United Hatzalah Volunteer
An emergency electric bicycle outfitted with first response equipment, lights and sirens, was stolen from an apartment complex on Malchei Yisrael Street in Tel Aviv on the first day of Sukkot. The emergency bicycle was given by United Hatzalah EMS organization to Zohar Sukenik, a volunteer EMT with the organization. The theft was reported to the Read more
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Psychotrauma First Responder Tells of Treating Fellows After Officer Killed in Motor Vehicle Accident
“It is Monday afternoon and I am at work in Jerusalem. I get an alert that a motor vehicle accident has occurred at the Nayot intersection and that a Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit team is needed to treat some of the injured people as well as some of the bystanders who witnessed the accident. Read more
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Handicapped EMT Receives Vehicle Allowing Him To Access Emergency Scenes Faster
Danny Shmuel was injured in a serious motorcycle accident in 2000. After a long period of rehabilitation, Shmuel was able to walk again with the help of crutches. His handicap does not prevent him from volunteering as an EMT with United Hatzalah and saving lives. Shmuel serves as the chapter head of United Hatzalah Read more
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Child Who Died, Dances on Stage 5 Days Later
On Thursday a two-year-old boy left his family’s sukkah in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem just after lunch and made his way to a nearby pond where he slipped and drowned. The missing boy was underwater for sometime before he was located by his worried parents who immediately called emergency services. United Hatzalah volunteer Read more
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Introducing the Mini-Lance United Hatzalah’s Newest Innovation in EMS Metro Response
Welcome to the next step in EMS innovation. United Hatzalah Israel’s largest all-volunteer EMS organization, has been at the pinnacle of EMS innovation for the past decade, having introduced the ambucycle, a motorcycle with all of the medical equipment an ambulance carries aside from a stretcher, more than 15 years ago. Now the organization is Read more
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Rav Chaim Kanievsky Surprises United Hatzalah With Sukkot Visit, Blessing and Donation
In a moving surprise visit by Maran Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Shlita, the leaders of United Hatzalah were honored to welcome the great sage for a short visit to the organization’s national headquarters in Jerusalem and to receive a blessing for all of the volunteers of the organization. The visit took place on Sunday evening, Read more
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Muslim First Responder in Har Adar Had Treated Slain Officer a Year Prior in Separate Terror Attack
The Muslim volunteer EMT who was the first responder at yesterday’s terror attack in Har Adar recognized one of the slain as being someone whom he had treated for a stab wound at a different terror attack a year prior. Moshir Abu Katish is a father of three and lives in Abu Gosh. He is Read more