Last week Thursday, early in the morning, a 63-year-old man was riding his bicycle when he began to feel pain in the middle of his chest. The man lost consciousness, collapsed, and fell onto the pavement. As a result of the fall, the man suffered serious head trauma and massive bleeding. Worried eyewitnesses called emergency Read more

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and ambulance driver Rachel Chuna was injured on Thursday morning when Arab terrorists threw rocks at vehicles on a highway outside of the Arab village of Tuqu’ in Gush Etzion. Rachel was driving a United Hatzalah ambulance at the time. The ambulance’s windshield was smashed and Rachel was lightly injured in Read more

On Tuesday afternoon just before 2:00 P.M., passersby called for help after a man in his 60s collapsed and lost consciousness outside a store on HaShdera HaMerkazit in Modi’in. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Pnina Peretz was working from home a few blocks away from the scene when she received an alert on her communications device Read more

On Monday afternoon, a man in his 40s suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Street in Modi’in Illit. Worried passers called medical services for help. Baruch Nordman, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, was shopping with his wife nearby when he received the alert regarding the emergency. Baruch quickly apologized to Read more

More than 40 people from Israel and the New York tri-state area, who were nearly all descendants of Harry and Jane Fischel, gathered in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem in December to dedicate three new lifesaving vehicles that were donated to United Hatzalah of Israel by the Harry and Jane Fischel Foundation. The vehicles, which Read more

On Shabbat morning in the neighborhood of Neve Yaakov, a rabbi at one of the local shuls suffered a cardiac incident and collapsed on the floor. The incident took place just after the Torah reading had concluded. One of the congregants, Daniel Katzenstein, a former community rabbi in his own right and a volunteer EMT Read more

On Sunday morning, a man was seriously injured and another man sustained light injuries in a stabbing incident on Dr. Shmorek street in Netanya. According to initial reports, the incident was criminal in nature. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shimon Eliyahu was driving his ambucycle a few minutes away when he was alerted by the dispatch center Read more

A three-year-old toddler who choked in a restaurant in Agadir, was saved thanks to a quick response from United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs who happened to be at the same restaurant. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon while the three Asoulin brothers from Kiryat Gat, Moshe, Nati, and Itzik, were vacationing in Morocco. While sitting at Read more

On Monday afternoon, United Hatzalah Operations Department received a special request from volunteer Dr. Shlomo Gensler to transfer a one-month-old baby girl from Schneider Children’s Medical Center to Ben Gurion Airport for an urgent medical flight. The infant needed to travel to a hospital in Miami, Florida which specializes in respiratory defects. The baby girl Read more