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Two Neighbors Save The Life Of A Third
A woman in her 70s was eating lunch this past Friday in the town of Nof HaGalil in northern Israel when she suddenly choked on her food, suffocated, and collapsed. Her son immediately called for help, and two United Hatzalah volunteers who live nearby, EMTs Chana Wolf and Shimon Yom Tov Weiser, received the alert Read more
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Welcoming Shabbat With A Successful CPR
On Friday evening, just as Shabbat was coming in, a 25-year-old man had collapsed in his apartment on Ya’akov Krol Street in Petah Tikva, due to drug overdose. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yosef Sweed was on his way to synagogue when his emergency communications device alerted him to the incident. Yosef knew he was needed Read more
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Israeli Startup Nanosynex Aims to Bring Rapid COVID-19 Test Kits To Israeli Markets
Nanosynex, a startup whose mission is to save lives by speeding up diagnostic processes, is working to bring a new inexpensive rapid testing kit that will successfully detect COVID-19 antigens to the Israeli market. The tests, which were developed by the startup’s strategic partner Biosynex, a leading French company in rapid diagnostic testing, are CE Read more
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Sunday In Holon With A Dying Man
This past Sunday night, just after 7:00 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Meir Turgeman was at his home in Holon with his family, when he received an emergency alert from his communications device. A 71-year-old man had collapsed in his apartment, not so far away from Meir’s location, on Ehad BeMai street. Meir quickly grabbed Read more
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Working Together To Save a Life
On Monday afternoon, a 28-year-old man collapsed for unknown reasons in his house on Yerushalayim Street in Afula. His worried mother called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Keren Ezouz and Imad Zoabi received the alert and responded to the emergency. Keren, a Jewish EMT from Kibbutz Heftziba was shopping nearby when Read more
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Blinded By The Will To Help, Volunteer Rushes Into Muslim Quarter To Help Arab Woman
United Hatzalah volunteer Neorai Tzemach works as a security guard at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. Whether on or off duty, Neorai is always ready with his medical skills to help a person in distress. However, there are occasions when he does not have his medical equipment with him, greatly hampering his effectiveness as an Read more
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Women’s Unit at the Forefront of Lifesaving: An Interview with Gitty Beer
Gitty Beer, the busy mom of five, a new grandmother, and the wife of United Hatzalah’s founder Eli Beer, started and runs United Hatzalah’s Women’s Unit, which is made up of more than 100 EMS volunteers and counting. Although there are almost 1,000 women who volunteer in United Hatzalah, the women who make up this Read more
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U.S. Ambassador David Friedman Kicks Off ‘Farewell Week’ By Visiting United Hatzalah
“We are deeply touched.” These were the words that U.S. Ambassador David Friedman told the President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer during a visit to the organization’s headquarters on Sunday. Ambassador Friedman said that both he and his wife Tammy, who was also present for the visit, were touched by the generosity of Read more
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A Jab Of Love
30-year-old Yogev and 22-year-old Noa Ben-Yehuda are a married couple living in Ashdod. The couple volunteer as United Hatzalah EMTs in the Ashdod chapter. The two have been volunteering since they met a year-and-a-half-ago, Noa volunteers as a paramedic and Yogev as an ambulance driver. The two responded to many medical emergencies on their own Read more
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From Giving a Bath To Giving Breath
On a recent evening at 8:30 PM, a 47-year-old man from Givat Ko’ach, a small moshav bordering the Judean hills, went out for an evening jog. In the middle of his run, the man suddenly collapsed to the ground and lay there unresponsive. Fortunately, someone witnessed the man falling and called for help. United Hatzalah’s Read more