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Helping Holocaust Survivors With Dignity
Esther Hotzlman is an 84-year-old widow who lives with one of her children in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. She immigrated to Israel at the age of 13 after surviving the holocaust. Esther originally hails from Greece and has had a momentous life in Israel. She served in the IDF shortly after the state was Read more
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After Terror Attack EMS Doctor Invents New Intubation Device Aimed at Increasing EMS and Hospital Intubation rates by 100%
“My name is Ishay Benuri. I am a pediatric gastroenterologist, married and father of seven amazing children, and I reside in the City of David, Jerusalem. I live next to the Old City and am a volunteer first responder with United Hatzalah. Unfortunately, I encounter many trauma cases including many terror attacks, the most recent Read more
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Haredi Consul, Israel EMS Share Glimpse Of Israeli Altruism With U.S. Consular Officers
United Hatzalah, an organization that enlists the community as EMS first responders, hosted ten US consular officers at its headquarters last week as a part of a tour put together by the Haredi Consul. The intention of the tour was to educate the US consular officers regarding the contribution of the haredi community to Israel. Read more
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EMS Couple Save The Life Of African Immigrant To Israel
Last Thursday, a couple’s night out was cut short by not one but two medical emergencies. Miri Shvimmer a volunteer paramedic, and Lior Ashkenazi, a volunteer EMT, and ambucycle driver were attending a performance of Les Miserable at Tel Aviv’s Habimah theater. As the applause started and before the curtain came down, the couple received Read more
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MDA And UH Volunteers Show Literal Brotherhood In EMS Response
Over the past few months tensions have been on the rise between EMS organizations United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom (MDA), with matters most recently being brought to the Knesset floor for arbitration, it’s hard to see clearly what really happens on the scene: brotherhood. The raison d’etre behind United Hatzalah is to be the Read more
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Young Jewish Professionals From New York Get Inspired by Israeli EMS Efforts
Young Jewish Professionals (YJP) of New York brought 21 guests from the United States, all of whom are CEO’s of their own companies, on a recent experiential fact-finding trip to Israel. During the trip, the organization brought the attendees to visit the headquarters of United Hatzalah, Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization. YJP’s goal is to Read more
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EMS Teams Focus On Community Outreach Prior To Peasach
One of the tenets of United Hatzalah is that it is a community-based organization. That means that the organization works with the community and for the community, in whatever capacity is needed. Although the main focus of United Hatzalah’s work is life-saving and emergency medical care, its individual chapters all over the country generally have Read more
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United Hatzalah Creates New App for Quick Navigation and EMS Alerts on Haifa Beaches
Tackling what has been a long-standing problem of locating and identifying patients in need of medical assistance on beaches along the coast of Israel, United Hatzalah Carmel Chapter has developed a new app that can alert EMS teams to medical emergencies. The app can identify the exact locations of emergencies along the beaches of Israel’s Read more
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Two EMTs playing an April Fools Joke End Up Saving a Life in the Process
Late Saturday night on April 1st, two EMTs, Dvir Adani and Moshe Mizrachi, decided that they would play an April Fool’s joke on their friends. The pair of United Hatzalah volunteers were driving past Ben Gurion airport on their way to buff calls in the center of the country when they decided to take a Read more
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EMT Calms Blind And Deaf Daughter Of CPR Patient While Fellow EMTs Revive Her Mother
An 80-year-old woman suffered a heart attack on Tuesday in the Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood of Jerusalem. United Hatzalah EMTs arrived in order to treat the woman and valiantly tried to save her life. The foreign worker who helped the woman had pressed the panic button from the Natalie ambulance service which automatically notified the United Read more