On March 16th, three years to the day after Eli Beer was admitted to the ICU at Miami University hospital, the Covid-19 survivor and Founder and President of United Hatzalah of Israel, will have his official biography released. The book, entitled 90 Seconds: The Epic Story of Eli Beer and United Hatzalah, is being released Read more

Israel’s national volunteer-based EMS organization United Hatzalah has launched an extensive safety awareness campaign this year in anticipation of Purim. Every year, the organization’s medical teams witness increasingly alarming cases resulting from the use of explosives, firecrackers, and other dangerous devices. These items may appear harmless but have the potential to cause serious harm, ranging Read more

Four people suffered injuries related to smoke inhalation due to a fire that broke out on Hamefaked Street in Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon. The fire occurred in a storage unit in the basement of a building and broke through the stairs and into other apartments. Worried tenants called Firefighters and emergency medical services for help. Read more

Ralph Milavsky was born on February 13th, 1947, in Stockholm, Sweden. He grew up with his cousins and learned to play the piano in his childhood, though he was not particularly fond of it. As a teenage boy, Ralph was exposed to jazz music and grew to appreciate it. After getting divorced from his first Read more

Just minutes before Shabbat came in last Friday, a family called for help when their 7-year-old daughter suddenly collapsed after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest in Rehovot. United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Golan Levi and Yair Biezuner received the proximity alert and without wasting a second, jumped on their respective ambucycles, flicked on lights and sirens, Read more

We were walking into the unknown, unaware of the destruction that awaited us out there amongst the rubble. Without knowing our fate, we banded together with the vision of saving lives clear in our minds.  Our journey into the unknown lay ahead. With 25 orange-clad volunteers, 10 tons of supplies, and an army of hundreds Read more

Itamar Tiferet is a military boarding school student that started volunteering at the United Hatzalah Ten Kavod program, following in his mother’s footsteps. His mother, Vickey Tiferet, is the Ten Kavod Emek Hahola’s coordinator. Itamar recently found out about an elderly man in his area who had not been recently seen by his usual Ten Read more

On Thursday morning, a 50-year-old woman went into cardiac arrest in the middle of her shift at a concrete factory in Migdal Tefen in Northern Israel. Worried staff alerted their coworkers who then called EMS for help. Anan Merey, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT who also works at the factory, was in the middle of Read more

Yaakov Maarek was born on November 14th, 1942 in Tunis City, Tunisia to a family with 4 children, including him. When Yaakov was two days old, his family escaped Tunis and fled to Algeria’s border due to the Nazi invasion and the subsequent bombing of Tunis. After arriving in occupied Algeria, Yaakov’s family still lived Read more

United Hatzalah of Israel inaugurated today its air medical unit (medevac) comprised of three helicopters and 30 flight paramedics. The unit will provide immediate air medical assistance in the north, center, and south of Israel. The helicopters, which are operated by pilots who previously served in helicopter units of the Israeli air force, will be Read more