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Successful Search And Rescue Finds Three Missing Girls In Petah Tikva
On Monday afternoon, the 21st of December, three young girls, all 9-year-olds, were declared missing from their homes in Petah Tikva. After the Petah Tikva police station received a distress call from one of the mothers, an officer called United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alen Malka. The Petah Tikva police officers are more than familiar with Read more
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Meeting My Future Wife After Saving a Life
Shlomo Toledano, is a volunteer EMT and emergency electric bicycle rider with United Hatzalah who hails from the city of Ashdod. Shlomo has been searching for his soul mate and was excited about meeting a prospective young lady recently that seemed like a perfect match. The pair set an auspicious date and time to meet, Read more
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Behind The Orange Vest: Volunteering Through the Eyes of Esther Pamensky
45 year-old Esther Pamensky, originally from New York, lives in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Eshkol with her husband and 4 kids. She has been volunteering for the last year and a half in United Hatzalah’s Women’s Unit. Throughout the current pandemic, mothers, wives, and grandmothers, are risking it all by continuing to respond to Read more
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Helping A Coworker Through a Heart Attack
One month ago, at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Guy Ezer was at home in Northern Tel-Aviv when his communications device alerted him to a nearby medical emergency. Read more
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Paying Attention To The Details When Assisting Patients in Shock
Last Tuesday morning, an elderly woman, with a history of multiple chronic medical issues, collapsed and hit her head in her home located in the city of Ramla. When the woman’s son came home, he arrived to find his mother on the ground and quickly called his sister for help. The sister, who had medical Read more
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The Post Office Can Wait
Two months ago, on Monday afternoon, an accident had occurred on Ramatayim Street in Hod Hasharon. A motorcyclist had crashed into the back of a truck, causing the rider to be thrown onto the pavement. A passerby immediately called United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center, who then identified volunteer Roie Baharozi as the nearest EMT Read more
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Community Volunteers Cooperate to Transport Elderly and Disabled to their Vaccinations During Lockdown
United Hatzalah has partnered with the group Yad Beyad for the Development of Mevaseret Zion, a non-profit, in a new project transporting people over 60 and the disabled who qualify to receive the Coronavirus vaccine, in cases when their access is limited due to the lockdown. Qualified individuals should call one of several local organizers Read more
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Inbar & Marius Nacht Family Foundation Assists In Providing Oxygen For Israeli EMS Workers
Throughout the year 2020, United Hatzalah has been at the forefront of providing a medical and humanitarian response to people in need during the Covid-19 crisis in Israel. The magnitude of this response was made possible in part by the generosity of the Inbar & Marius Nacht Family Foundation. In addition to assisting the organization Read more
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Taking A Break From Coffee To Save A Life
Ebud Beker is a Muslim United Hatzalah volunteer EMT hailing from the Al-Bustan neighborhood in East Jerusalem. This past Friday, Ebud was enjoying a coffee with his two brothers at a local coffee shop when his emergency communications device began to ring. A 20-year-old man had collapsed in his home and was unconscious. Ebud’s brothers Read more
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Providing Better Care For My Patients By Befriending Fellow First Responders
Yitzhak Sheinberg, a United Hatzalah volunteer from Haifa, works as a nurse’s assistant for a local health clinic. He is married and has two children. Since the summer, Yitzhak has also been working as a Covid-19 test-taker and has been recognized as the medical technician who has collected more samples than anyone else in the Read more