Archives: Stories
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EMTs Visit Heart Attack Victim Whose Life They Saved
On Tuesday night, just after midnight, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Lior Filshteiner was winding down in his home in Hod Hasharon after a long day of volunteering in the ICU at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. After Lior’s communications device alerted him to a nearby medical emergency, he found himself on his ambucycle, Read more
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Twins Celebrate Their Birthday On The Same Ambulance On Which They Were Born
On Wednesday, four years to the day after receiving an alert about a woman in labor, United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Avi Amar, Gavriel Mumko, and Yaakov Mazoz, returned to the scene of the medical emergency, on Ahi Eilat Street in Ashdod, for a very special occasion. The three EMTs comprised the medical team on one Read more
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Ambassador David Friedman Headlines Group of Distinguished Leaders Who Join United Hatzalah’s International Board
United Hatzalah is expanding its international board and bringing on some remarkable people who have made large impacts on the Jewish community in the United States and Israel. President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer spoke about how proud he was to have the new board members join the organization. “We are proud to Read more
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“Our Common Goal Is Saving Lives”- Jewish and Muslim EMTs Leave Training Class To Save A Life
On Monday night at 9:30 p.m., four United Hatzalah volunteers were participating in an advanced EMT training class. Three of them were Jewish men, Alon Goldenberg, Yoni Butbul, and Israel Yaakov Avitan, and one, Sanaa Mahameed is a religious Muslim woman. During the class, the emergency communication devices of all four EMTs began to ring Read more
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Thinking Counterintuitively To Save A Life
On Saturday night, just after 7:00 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yossi Teshuva was sitting with his family for dinner when Yossi’s communications device began to buzz. Two medical emergencies were occurring simultaneously in the Ma’ale Adumim area. One is an incident of fainting, the other a stabbing incident. Yossi did a quick calculation of Read more
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Behind the Orange Vest: A Conversation with Vicky Tiferet on International Women’s Day
Vicky Tiferet was recently appointed as the head of United Hatzalah’s Hula Valley chapter, becoming the first woman in the organization to hold such a post. The Hula Valley region stretches from Metula to the north of the Sea of Galilee and currently has 54 active volunteers, of which 19 are women. Vicki lives in Read more
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Small-Town EMT Goes The Distance To Save A Woman’s Life
On Saturday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Hen Rotenberg, who has been recently volunteering in the Jerusalem vaccination center administering Covid-19 vaccines, was at her home Srigim, a small town located south of Beit Shemesh. She was preparing to entertain some company and about to step into the shower when her emergency communication device sprang Read more
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First Aid Training Center Opened By United Hatzalah in Kfar Qassem
Zim Urban Life Corporation, under the auspices of Rani Zim, assisted United Hatzalah to build its new regional training and activity center in the Zim Urban Life business center in Kfar Qassem. The corporation invested in the initiative in order to increase the activity of the first response volunteers of United Hatzalah in the Arab Read more
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Three CPRs In One Day
On Tuesday at 4:30 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Menachem Slovatizky was returning in his ambulance from an unsuccessful CPR when he was suddenly alerted to another medical emergency. In an old-age home in Bnei Brak, an 80-year-old woman had begun choking. As the alarmed staff called United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center, the woman Read more
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New Pesach Haggadah Just Released from United Hatzalah Chairman Mark Gerson
We are delighted to announce that Mark Gerson, our great friend and the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah, has just published a book on the Haggadah: The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life. This book, which was published by St. Martin’s Essentials, is already #1 on the relevant Amazon categories Read more