On Sunday morning, a 100-year-old woman suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in her home on Ilona Feher Street in Holon. Her caregiver came to check on her and when she entered the woman’s room, the caregiver found the elderly woman lying on the floor unconscious, not breathing, and without a pulse. The caregiver immediately called Read more

Last Wednesday evening, a group of 50 teenagers hailing from various regions across the United States and Canada celebrated their graduation from the emergency medical response training course with United Hatzalah. These young participants were part of the NCSY Hatzalah Rescue program, an annual summer program that trains participants in EMS techniques and certifies them Read more

My name is Daniel Malka, and I am a volunteer EMT and the deputy head of the Maalot branch of United Hatzalah. On Monday morning, our team at United Hatzalah received a distress call regarding a motor vehicle accident. However, the location, next to Nahal Kziv, hinted at the possibility of rugged terrain, prompting some Read more

On a Motzei Shabbat earlier this year in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Eshkol, a 5-month-old baby suffered an anaphylactic shock, a life-threatening allergic reaction. The parents of the infant quickly called for assistance, and Ari Odzer, an immigrant from New York and United Hatzalah volunteer EMT who lives in the same building, quickly made Read more

Just before 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Ashdod, a 70-year-old woman was discovered unconscious in her bed by her relatives who immediately dialed emergency services for assistance. Among those dispatched was Yochai Cohen, a dedicated volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah, who was on his way to work when he received the alert. Within three minutes, Read more

On Monday morning, a man in his 20s experienced a frightening accident while leaping into the Jordan River near Kibbutz Gadot. He struck his head on a rock, resulting in a significant injury. His friends alerted emergency services. Moshe Rothschild, a teacher and a volunteer EMT from United Hatzalah, was coincidentally nearby on a school Read more

Carmella was born in 1951 while her family was on the way to Israel having fled Iraq. Carmella’s birthday wasn’t written down, but according to her brother, she was born on the second day of Hanukkah. When Carmella and her family arrived in Israel they were housed in immigrant and refugee absorption camps, or ‘Hetzerot’ Read more

With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of one of our volunteer EMTs Dana Ben Shoshan, from the Galilee chapter. Dana, who volunteers as an EMT and a midwife, was killed Thursday morning in a car crash while driving her private car on her way home from the hospital where she worked as a Read more

My name is Yoel Bueta, and I just had a pretty incredible experience wherein I saved a man’s life while on a plane. I was traveling from Israel to London last week for a short vacation. As we were nearing the end of the flight, with only 40 minutes left, I heard a commotion coming Read more

On Tuesday morning, a man in his 50s collapsed at a bus stop at the Trifrach Junction on Highway 25. Quick-thinking passersby sprang into action, promptly alerting emergency services. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Rafi Freed happened to be driving nearby for work when he was alerted to the emergency by the organization’s Dispatch and Command Read more