Archives: Stories
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Always Ready To Help A Person In Need – After Returning To Israel, United Hatzalah International Ambassador Saves A Life On the First Day Out Of Isolation
Gavy Freidson started volunteering as a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT in 2006 when he was just 17-years-old. Receiving one of the organization’s first ambucycles, Gavy grew passionate to the act of jumping on his vehicle and arriving at the scene of a medical emergency to save a life. Since then, Gavy has moved to the Read more
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“I Would Do It All Over Again” – Volunteer First Responder Forced Into Isolation After Treating New Mother Who Tested Positive For Corona
One month ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Daniel Katzenstein received an alert from his communication device, notifying him about a medical emergency occurring near his home in Neve Yaakov. Daniel headed to the address in his emergency flycar. As per the protocol for volunteering during the pandemic, before he entered the home where the incident Read more
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Transforming A Good Deed Into Something Bigger
Kobi Ifargan is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT hailing from the city of Jerusalem. When Kobi is not active in saving lives, he is busy running his hair salon in Jerusalem. One afternoon, a couple of months ago, Kobi was tending to a customer when his communications device started ringing, alerting him to a medical Read more
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Volunteer EMT Acts Quickly To Save A Man With Stab Wounds
Last week, just after 3:00 a.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yisrael Malul was tossing and turning in his bed, having a hard time falling asleep in his home in the city of Kokhav Ya’akov. Suddenly, interrupting the silence, a loud screeching voice was heard outside. The voice belonged to a woman crying for help. The Read more
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Choosing To Face The Consequences
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Erez Agassi lives in Shoham and strives to make a difference every day and help those around him. Like many of his fellow Israelis, Erez has been facing increased pressure at his place of employment as of late, with coronavirus-related stressors building, making it increasingly difficult to continue responding to medical Read more
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Two EMTs Deliver Two Baby Girls On Tuesday Before 9 A.M.
Early Tuesday morning, just after 6 a.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avigail Beer was awoken from her sleep by the sound of her emergency communication device, alerting her to a medical emergency nearby. A woman had gone into active labor and was in the middle of delivering her baby without enough time to make it Read more
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Helping Corona Patients With Kindness And Love
Dvir Adani is a free-spirited man living in the heart of Tel Aviv and volunteering with United Hatzalah. Prior to the Corona outbreak, Dvir hosted parties for the public in Tel Aviv, but amidst the corona restrictions, Dvir has been a full-time committed EMT. The 30-year-old EMT joined United Hatzalah in his late teens, making Read more
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EMT Sick With Corona and Residing At Corona Hotel Brings Medical Relief and Joy To Other Patients
Elkana Breuer, a resident of Beitar Illit, works as a singer and keyboardist and teaches in an elementary school. On Rosh Hashanah, he prayed in a small minyan where the congregation strictly adhered to all of the rules of the Health Ministry and acted in accordance with the guidelines. In spite of that, 10 of Read more
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EMT Saves Two Choking Victims At One Emergency
On Sunday evening United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Gavriel Bitton rescued two people, a father and a daughter from choking at the same incident. Gavriel who hails from Tel Aviv and serves as the team leader for United Hatzalah in the south-eastern district of the city has been volunteering for nine years, but this is the Read more
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Baby Rescued From Hot Car in Petach Tikvah
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alan Malka, saved the life of an infant girl on Sunday morning when he pulled her from a locked hot car on Aharonovitz Street in Petach Tikvah. “I was working at my job in the Municipality when I received an emergency alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Comand Center regarding a Read more