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Saving a Life With The Right Equipment and A Quick Response
On Monday morning a man in his 70s was walking down Zevulun Street in Kiryat Ata when he suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed on the street. As he fell, the man struck his head sustaining a serious injury. Worried passersby called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic Raz Diamand had just finished Read more
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Saving A Life In Pajamas
Just after 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, a 92-year-old woman was riding in a car with her daughter and granddaughter near the train station in Modi’in when she suddenly lost consciousness. Her conscientious daughter and granddaughter pulled the car over and called emergency services for help while attempting to perform CPR on the elderly matriarch Read more
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Honoring Our Military Veterans On Remembrance/Veteran’s Day
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 Read more
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Saving a Life While Help Is Far Away
On Friday morning at 5:30 a.m., a woman in her home in Wadi Yasul, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, called United Hatzalah due to her suffering from shortness of breath. They immediately notified the closest first responders to come and help the woman. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Atef Amro, who lives around Read more
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From A Community Event To a Community Bombing, All In a Day’s Work For One EMT in Nazareth
On Monday evening at around 10:00 p.m., a live grenade was thrown into the Ministry of Health building in Nazareth. The bomb set off a loud explosion that shook the surrounding area. Thankfully, there were no casualties or injuries. Earlier that day, there was a community activity for the children in Nazareth. The Read more
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Saving a Life Before Breakfast
At around 2:30 a.m. on Monday morning, a 92-year-old man fell unconscious in his bedroom on Ha-Etsel street in Ashdod. His son heard the loud “boom” and ran over to see what happened. As soon as he saw his father lying on the floor he called United Hatzalah to send help. He performed CPR as Read more
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Two Successful CPR’s in One Weekend
On Friday just before noon, Roey Ido, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT was at home getting ready for Shabbat, when his emergency communication device began to sound alerting him to a medical emergency taking place nearby. Without hesitating, Roey dropped what he was doing and rushed to his emergency electric bicycle which he left parked Read more
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Becoming a Lifesaving Shepherd
23-year-old Netanel Yeloz lives with his wife in a farming cooperative in Samaria called Havat Yetaidot. He and his wife care for 500 sheep together with three other families from their cooperative, which is located in the bloc of towns near Shiloh. As a person who has spent most of his life living in a Read more
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Introducing Zayid Ahiav – Volunteer Of The Month For October 2021
Introducing Zayid Ahiav – Volunteer Of The Month For October 2021 Zayid Ahiav is a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah, he lives in the town of Kfar Mazra’a in northern Galilee with his wife and three children and works as an assistant at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. Zayid, who is of the Read more
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Making a House a Home for a Family in Need
Two weeks ago, on Saturday night, United Hatzalah volunteers helped a woman give birth to her sixteenth child in her home in Geula, Jerusalem. United Hatzalah volunteer Avi, who was one of the first responders at the emergency birth, said, “Once the mother and her new baby girl were taken Read more