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EMT Performs CPR On His Father, Saves His Life
Roi Ido is a United Hatzalah volunteer hailing from the city Kfar Saba. On Tuesday morning at 7:50 a.m., Roi was heading out of his home on Moshe Dayan street on his way to work. Already upset that he was delayed that morning by a few minutes, Roi ended up stuck in traffic. While waiting Read more
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Volunteer Drops What He Is Holding To Go Save A Life
On Sunday afternoon, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yoni Tzadok was in the middle of his delivery shift in the bustling city Bnei Brak. Just after 1:00 p.m., as he was dropping a shipment off on Kehilot Ya’akov street, Yoni’s communications device alerted him to an emergency occurring on the very street he was on. Despite Read more
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Being Reminded That Miracles Happen
On Thursday evening, May 13th, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Nafoussi was visiting a family member in the town of Neve Michael for dinner. At around 8:00 p.m., United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center alerted Avi to an emergency occurring nearby. The emergency was labeled as an Asthma attack, and knowing personally from a family Read more
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Jerusalem Seniors Sponsor Life-Saving e-Bike
When rockets are falling and Jews are under attack, some people feel helpless and despondent. Not the residents of Beit Tovei Ha’ir retirement community in Jerusalem. Since the first rockets were launched from Gaza, the Tehilim group met daily, but that was not enough. A group of residents decided to raise money for United Hatzalah, Read more
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Dispatch, Crisis and Mental Health. An In-depth Look with UH Medical Director Avi Marcus.
The last two and a half weeks have been extremely busy for United Hatzalah’s Medical Director, Avi Marcus. Avi also runs the organization’s Psychotrauma Unit. The unit is a group of trained mental health professionals and medics responsible for providing psychological first aid in the initial minutes following a traumatic experience to help prevent PTSD. Last month, Read more
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Amid the Tensions, Jewish EMTs Perform CPR In East Jerusalem, Save A Muslim Man’s life
Early Sunday morning, Shimon Afgin and Avi Gian, two Jewish volunteer EMTs with United Hatzalah, were on their scheduled ambulance shift in Jerusalem, when they were alerted to a nearby emergency. The location was on A-Sahl Aljadid street, in the heart of the Sheikh Anbar neighborhood of east Jerusalem. The two EMTs calculated all the Read more
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Fighting A Battle I Have To Win
On Saturday night, just after 9:30 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT David Baluka was in his home in Neve Ziv, a town located near Ma’alot-Tarshiha in the northern region of Israel. David was winding down from Shabbat when his communications device alerted him to an emergency occurring in his town. David recognized the address and Read more
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**UPDATED: Emergency Campaign For Israel – Additional $1,000,000 match above and beyond $1 Million Matching Grant By Rabbi Erica and Mark Gerson
Thanks to the tremendous response to Mark and Erica Gerson’s $1 Million Match, an additional $1,000,000 match has just been announced by Mark and Erica and a private foundation between now and Monday, May 24th. These funds will help purchase additional protective vest and helmet sets for our volunteers as well as medical equipment to Read more
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Muslim Doctor Lightly Injured After Protecting A Jewish Man With His Own Body During An Attempted Lynch in Tamra
Amid the violence plaguing numerous cities in Israel in the past week, a throng of Muslims attempted to lynch a Jewish man who entered the Muslim city of Tamra in the Galilee. In the incident which occurred on Wednesday night, the Jewish man was being beaten in what appeared to be a lynch until a Read more
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Performing CPR During A Missile Attack
On Tuesday night, as Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip rained down on Israel, United Hatzalah volunteers continued responding to medical emergencies wherever and whenever they occurred. In the city of Givat Shmuel, located a few kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv, the air raid sirens began to wail just before 9:00 p.m. alerting the residents Read more