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Following Up A Life-Saving Rescue With A Birth
This morning at around 11:00 a.m., a 75-year-old man collapsed while on Levanda Street in Tel Aviv. It appeared that the man suffered from a sudden cardiac arrest. Passersby called emergency services for help while others who have previous CPR training rushed to his side and performed compressions on the man until help could arrive. Read more
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Saving the Life of A Badly Injured Cyclist
At approximately 6:30 p.m. on Monday evening, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Itai Strominger was eating dinner with his family in their home in Be’er Milka. At the same time, a man in his 30’s was riding on his electric bicycle near the Nitzana Junction on Route 211 when he was hit by a passing bus Read more
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Saving the Same Man Twice in 24 Hours
Adir Nachmani is a volunteer EMT for United Hatzalah and works for the city of Be’er Sheva. On Saturday night, close to 6:00 p.m., when Adir was on an ambulance shift around the city, he received a call about a 60-year-old man suffering from a seizure on Yehudah HaLevi street. He rushed over to Read more
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Student and Teacher Save A Life Together
Yossi Cohen is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT who lives in Kfar Saba and works in the field of finance and mortgage advice. On Sunday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m., Yossi was at Read more
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The Minister of Social Equality’s visit to the United Hatzalah Headquarters
The Minister of Social Equality, Meirav Cohen, took a tour of the United Hatzalah headquarters in Jerusalem with the staff of her bureau on Tuesday. United Hatzalah’s CEO Eli Polak, together with VP of Operations Dov Meisel, Israel Director of Friends of United Hatzalah Linor Atias, Director of Operations Moshiko Moskowitz, and Director of Development Read more
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Rescuing A Teen From A Pit With No Water
Last week on Wednesday afternoon, a young teenager fell into an open pit approximately 4-5 meters deep at a construction site near the Kibbutz of Ma’ayan Baruch in the northern Galilee. His uncle called emergency services for help after he was unable to reach his nephew or extricate him from the pit. United Hatzalah Read more
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Focusing On What Unites Us and Not What Divides Us
Last night, there was a terror attack in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. A terrorist who was described as a young teenager stabbed two police officers, a male and a female, near the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva. United Hatzalah volunteers rushed to the scene as fast as they could. Muslim ambucycle EMT Read more
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Highlighting Our Students and Future Lifesavers
As part of our Year Of The Volunteer project, United Hatzalah will be highlighting volunteers from across the country who give of themselves and their time to help others and save lives each and every day. We want to recognize these heroes for the work that they do both as volunteer first responders and in their everyday Read more
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EMT Saves the Life Of An Akko Man Who Collapsed In Front Of His Family
Just before 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a man in his 60s with a pre-existing heart condition told his family members that he wasn’t feeling well. His worried family called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yahav Kalfon was eating a late breakfast when he received the emergency alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch Read more
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Performing CPR Alone For 20 Minutes
At around 4:00 a.m. on Friday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Monir Kawas was awakened by an alert to a medical emergency that was occurring nearby. An 83-year-old man had fallen down the stairs from a height of around one meter. He hit his head from the fall and landed unconscious on the floor. His Read more