Archives: Stories
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Assisting A Psychiatric Patient In A Police Station
Roman Firas is a father of four and a dedicated United Hatzalah volunteer, hailing from the town of Ein-Rafa, located near Jerusalem. Roman serves as a dispatcher at United Hatzalah’s headquarters in Jerusalem and the co-head of the Muslim East-Jerusalem Chapter of the organization. He has been volunteering for over six years. Last month, Roman Read more
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Being A Part Of a New Beginning
Just before Rosh Hashanah, a two-year-old boy was playing with the family’s laundry line, which was hanging outside their third-floor window in Bnei Brak, when the laundry line broke. The boy lost his balance and fell out of the window, plummeting to the street below. On the way down his body struck an A/C motor Read more
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Saving A Choking Baby- A Truly Meaningful Yom Kippur
On Yom Kippur evening, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Mordecai Holtz, who lives in the town of Neve Daniel, was praying in shul during the special holiday service, when his emergency communication device alerted him to a medical emergency that was taking place nearby. A five-month-old baby was choking a few blocks away from Mordecai’s location. Read more
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The Importance of Always Having Backup When Needed
Two months ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Salah Majad was in his home in the village of Beit Hanina, celebrating a family event, when he received an emergency alert to a nearby car accident. The report from dispatch that came over his communications device described the incident as a minor accident, and being as he Read more
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United Hatzalah Volunteers Provided Medical Care At Corona Hotels For Yom Kippur
The IDF Home Front Command in partnership with United Hatzalah set up a special project for Yom Kippur that saw dozens of emergency first responders from the EMS organization stay at the Corona hotels over the course of the holiday. The volunteers were stationed at a number of the Corona hotels across the country and Read more
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Teaching The Boy He Helped Birth
Shir Aargi, a first-grader in Ma’alot Meshullam elementary school in Rehovot was enthusiastic when he learned who his first-grade teacher was going to be. “Mr. Hajbi was at my birth and now he is my teacher,” Aargi said excitedly. Hajbi, volunteers as a United Hatzalah EMT when he isn’t teaching or with his own family. Read more
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Jerusalem City Hall Partners with United Hatzalah To Spread Awareness of Covid-19 Risks to East Jerusalem Residents
As part of a new partnership that took place between the Jerusalem Municipality and United Hatzalah of Israel, more than 20 EMS volunteers driving ambucycles, an ambulance, fly cars, and an ATV, drove through the neighborhoods of East Jerusalem in order to undertake community outreach and spread awareness of the dangers of Covid-19 to the Read more
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Continuing His Legacy — Volunteer EMT Barak Shlush Saves Lives In Memory Of His Grandfather
By Devorah Klein United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Barak Shlush hails from the city of Netanya. Barak is a very active first responder and has participated in saving many lives over the course of the past two years. This of course would not be possible without the use of his ambucycle. However, Barak’s connection to his Read more
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Prominent US Philanthropists Donate Medical Equipment To Israel in Honor of Health Minister Edelstein
American Philanthropists Ron and June Daniels, and Joel and Adele Sandberg, who were active in freeing Russian refusniks like Edelstein, recently donated life-saving medical equipment to United Hatzalah in honor of Edelstein’s service as Health Minister of Israel. In the middle of August, Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein became the first-ever sitting health minister to Read more
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How Adapting Vehicles To The Emergency Lowers Response Times And Saves Lives
Earlier this month on a Tuesday afternoon, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Daniel Bakovza, received an emergency alert to a medical emergency that had taken place nearby. A man was swimming in the ocean near the beach in Ashdod when he drowned due to unknown causes. Seeing him struggling, the man’s friends rushed over and pulled Read more