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‘A League of Their Own’: Major Israeli Law Firms Hold Fundraising Basketball Tournament at Menorah Arena, Donate Ambucycle to United Hatzalah
On Sunday night, a number of leading law firms in Israel participated in a fundraising basketball tournament designed to raise money for the purchase of an ambucycle, (a motorcycle equipped with all of the EMS equipment found on an ambulance aside from the bed and backboard) to United Hatzalah. The ambucycle was dedicated at the Read more
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz Visits United Hatzalah Headquarters and Inaugurates 1,500 Ceramic Bulletproof Vests
On Sunday afternoon, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz arrived at United Hatzalah’s Headquarters in Jerusalem, together with Members of Knesset Yael Ron Ben-Moshe and Ruth Wasserman Lande. The trio was on an official visit to the organization’s headquarters and participated in the inauguration of 1,500 ceramic bulletproof vests, which will be distributed to the organization’s Read more
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Sakhnin Gunshot Victim Treated By United Hatzalah EMTs Amidst Ongoing Wave of Violence In Arab Sector
On Monday night, a man was shot close to his home in the northern city of Sakhnin. The circumstances of the incident were unclear. Passersby called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Abd Al Rahman Raya was driving on his way to visit this father when he received the alert on his communications Read more
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Man Suffering Severe Hypoglycemia Successfully Treated By United Hatzalah EMT During 20-Minute-Long Wait For Ambulance
Jeremie Korchia, a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah, was working from his home in Holon last Thursday afternoon when he was alerted to a man suffering from a case of severe hypoglycemia (dangerously low-blood sugar) in his neighborhood. He jumped onto his ambucycle, and drove to the scene of the incident located a few blocks Read more
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I Saved My Sister’s Life Thanks To a First Aid Course I Took With The Ten Kavod Project
My name is Moriah Dorfman. I am an 18-year-old girl from Bat Yam and I recently saved the life of my 6-year-old sister. This past June I completed a first-aid course that I took through United Hatzalah as part of the “Ten Kavod” project in which volunteers conduct weekly wellness visits with assigned senior citizens Read more
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Good Neighbor: United Hatzalah Volunteer Saves Her Neighbor’s Life
Last week, Tamar Grunebaum Ben Ari, a United Hatzalah volunteer in Kfar Saba, was at her home when she received a call about a suffocation victim. What would normally be a routine event for a woman who has been an EMT for the past 5 years, turned out to be something a bit out of Read more
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Ukrainian Refugees Train To Become EMTs in Israel
Ten members of Uman’s Breslov community who fled to Israel at the onset of the war trained to become EMTs with United Hatzalah in hopes of returning to Ukraine and assist their community. On Thursday last week, a very special EMT training course celebrated its graduation ceremony. The course was specially designed for members of Read more
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Choking Baby in Umm al-Fahm Saved By Her Aunt’s Quick Intervention
On Sunday afternoon just after 3:30 p.m., a seven-month-old baby choked on some food that she was eating. Her worried mother, knowing that her own sister-in-law is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT called her and asked for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Sanaa Mahameed, was driving her ambucycle through the city when she received the Read more
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“ The Merit of a Good Deed Is Another Good Deed – Mitzvah Goreret Mitzvah” – Or Yehuda Man Resuscitated By EMT Who Drops Torah Shiur To Save A Life
On Monday evening just after 9:00 p.m., a sixty-year-old man had collapsed on HaMif’al Street and worried passersby had called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shlomie Tzadok was on his way to attend a Torah class that was being held nearby his home in Or Yehuda. Despite being on summer vacation Read more
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Tzfat Man Resuscitated After Collapsing at Home In Front of His Wife
Just after midnight on Monday morning, a man in his late 20s was at his home on Yoseftal Street in Tzfat preparing to go to bed, when he suddenly collapsed. The man was in good health with no pre-existing medical conditions so his collapse came as a complete shock to his wife, who panicked and Read more