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City Councillor Volunteers to Save a Life
Nir Bazak is a member of the city council of Gedera, Israel and has been on the council since 2012. He works as an electrical engineer for the Israel Electric Corporation and volunteers as an EMT with United Hatzalah, Israel’s national volunteer emergency medical services organization. On December 8th, in the early afternoon, Nir dropped Read more
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United Hatzalah Helps Build A Terem Clinic For The Residents Of Beitar Illit
Shimshi Grossberger is the chapter head of United Hatzalah in Beitar Illit. He has been working diligently for the past two years to open an Emergency medical clinic in the city of Beitar Illit, a city with 55,000 residents that until recently, did not have an emergency medical clinic. The newly founded clinic belongs Read more
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Gush Etzion Medic Treats Palestinian Crash Victim
On Monday, United Hatzalah medics Danny Gur and Avishai Landau responded to a traffic accident that occurred at El-Aroub intersection, which is located near the Gush Etzion intersection. Gur lives in the nearby town of Alon Shvut and had already responded to a man with a respiratory problem earlier in the day. “We arrived at Read more
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Volunteer EMT Orders a Pizza and Saves Two Lives
Last week Thursday at 7:00 pm, Yuval Mizrachi, who just two months ago became a father for the first time, was sent out by his wife to pick up a pizza for dinner. He had just picked up a family-sized pizza in his hometown of Ganei Tikvah when his United Hatzalah walkie-talkie alerted him that Read more
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Making a Difference: Englewood Fathers and Sons Group Visits United Hatzalah
Rabbi Zev Reichman brought a group of fathers and sons from East Hills Synagogue in Englewood, New Jersey to visit Israel’s national volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization United Hatzalah last week. The visit was prompted by the desire to help educate the group about the difference that one person can create in the Read more
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Saving Lives is All in the Family: Elderly Man Saved By Grandson’s EMT Colleagues Lives to See Granddaughter Marry Volunteer EMT
On November 8th, an 82-year-old man collapsed on the street in Holon, he was standing near a shop window when he suffered a heart attack. Emergency services were called and volunteers from Israel’s national volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization United Hatzalah arrived and began to resuscitate the elderly man. Little did they know that Read more
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Rescuing Residents From the Haifa Fires: A Personal Story of Heroism and Tragedy
On Thursday, Israel’s national volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization United Hatzalah mobilized over 600 volunteers from around the country to assist fire and rescue teams with evacuations and firefighting across the country. During the rescue and evacuation operations in Haifa, one United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic, Doron Shafir, had his own home catch fire while Read more
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United Hatzalah Mobilizes Hundreds of EMS Volunteers to Respond to Fires Across Israel
More than 600 Hundred United Hatzalah volunteer EMS personnel assisted firefighters in evacuating residents in the Romema and Sapir neighborhoods of Haifa during a series of fires that blazed in those areas on Thursday morning. Residents who were still in their neighborhoods were evacuated by the firefighters, police and United Hatzalah volunteers. Multiple fires burned Read more
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Towards Year’s End, United Hatzalah Sets Sights on Building up the Periphery
With the end of the Gregorian calendar year quickly approaching, United Hatzalah, Israel’s national volunteer emergency services organization, is expanding its efforts in Israel’s periphery. Having graduated 140 new EMTs in the month of October, the organization has added to the number of first responders in Haifa and Dimona, graduating another 50 EMTs this past Read more
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The Couple that Saves Lives Together on Shabbat
Amazing Shabbat story from Jerusalem United Hatzalah volunteer Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin. “Last night I was preparing shabbat dinner when my MIRS radio started talking. It was the familiar voice of the United Hatzalah dispatch operator delivering information about a serious call, not a minor one. I listened in and heard that the call was in the Read more