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Beginning Yom Yerushalayim With Saving A Life and Hallel
On Sunday morning just after 8:30 a.m., a worker in a school on Shalom Sharabi Street told one of his colleagues that he wasn’t feeling well. He sat down on a bench and keeled over. His fellow staff members, having previously taken a CPR course, called emergency services for help, then proceeded to attach the Read more
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Greater New York Community Raises $6 Million for United Hatzalah of Israel
On Tuesday evening at Pier 60 in Chelsea Piers, over 1,000 people gathered together in support of Israel’s premier fully volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organization. Over 400 of them were young professionals under the age of 35. The gathered crowd attended the third annual gala held by Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel (www.israelrescue.org) Read more
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The Best Reason To Get Out Of Bed in The Morning – Saving a Life
Just after 7:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a woman in her 50s with a complicated medical history was about to eat breakfast at her home in the Galilean city of Tur’an. Her sister was bringing her some food when the woman lost consciousness. Knowing the woman’s medical history her sister quickly checked her blood sugar Read more
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CPR Rescue on Platform 2
On Monday, at around 6:00 p.m, while a 50-year-old man was standing alongside his friend on the platform of HaShalom train station in Tel Aviv, he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and fell unconscious on the floor of the platform. United Hatzalah EMT Tomer Segev was standing on platform 2 of HaShalom station in Tel Read more
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The Cherry on Top
On Sunday, a few minutes before midnight, a 77-year-old woman was found by her caretaker unconscious in her bed in Rishon LeTsiyon. The caretaker was distraught and frantically called the woman’s son to help her. As soon as he heard the news, he hung up the phone and dialed emergency services to help. Oren Rosfasha, Read more
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Of Cows, Coffee, and Successful CPR
On Sunday morning at around 7:00 a.m., a group of 5 workers in the cowshed of Kibbutz Yagur were drinking their morning coffee together when one of them suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed unconscious right in front of their eyes. As one of the men started to perform chest compressions, the others called Read more
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Bus Driver Stops 50 Passenger Bus to Treat Victims of Three Car Accident Near The Dead Sea
On Wednesday afternoon at around 4:30 p.m., a three-car accident occurred on Highway 90 near the Dead Sea chemical factories. In the accident, one car was completely overturned and 5 people sustained injuries. Emergency services were called and United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Zohar Hekal, who was one of the closest first responders to the scene, Read more
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Deceased Man Triggers Tough Memories for Responding EMT
On Sunday night a man was found unconscious in his car on Ben-Zvi Street in Tel Aviv. Police responded to the incident and called for emergency medical services to come and assist and try to resuscitate the man. United Hatzalah volunteer Jennifer Attias, who lives in Moshav Granot, was filming a promotional video in Read more
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Three Bedouin Injured In Violent Clash In Northern Israel
A few minutes after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday night, Israel’s emergency services were called due to a violent fight between two families in Kfar Sallama, a Bedouin village in northern Israel, which left three people injured. Yehuda Nordman is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT from Ramat Gan. He was enjoying a relaxing weekend up north Read more
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I’m an Israeli first responder. The Meron disaster taught me the importance of mental health
By Dov Maisel It’s been a year since one of the most harrowing civilian tragedies ever experienced in Israel — the stampede and subsequent “crush” on Mount Meron that killed 45 people celebrating Lag B’Omer. I was standing near the medical clinic of United Hatzalah on Mount Meron as the crush developed. As people attempted Read more