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Getting A New Chance At Life, Just Before Pesach
On Thursday morning, just after 9:00 a.m., a man in his 70s was eating breakfast at his home on Herzl Street in Rosh Ha’ayin when he suddenly choked on a piece of orange. His caretaker saw what had happened and called emergency services as he tried to get the man to cough up the food Read more
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Successful CPR Followed By A Car Accident
On Tuesday morning, just after 10 a.m., a resident of the coastal city Ashdod in her 90’s was having trouble breathing in her home. The woman’s caretaker called emergency services to the apartment. When the ambulance crew arrived the woman suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Beni Manela was working from home Read more
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EMT Couple Saves The Life Of A Young Woman With A Chronic Illness
Just after midnight on Wednesday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Reuven and Chana Kushilevich spent their evening on their weekly date-night call buffing medical emergencies in their hometown of Kiryat Motzkin. They had just finished responding to their fifth medical emergency when the couple agreed to call it a night and head home to sleep. Read more
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Saving A Choking Baby On Route 60 On Shabbat
Adir Nahmany is a full-time Member of the municipality in the southern city Be’er Sheva. On the weekends, when he is not busy with meetings, Adir does what he is most passionate about, volunteering as an EMT with United Hatzalah. On March 13th, just after noon, Adir was finishing up his Shabbat meal with his Read more
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Saving a Man’s Life, For The Second Time
On Tuesday morning, at 10:30 a.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alan Malka was in his home in Petah Tikva getting his day started after a late-night shift when he heard the ringing sound coming from his emergency communications device. With a quick glance at the information, before heading out, Alan recognized the address very well, Read more
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Atara Twersky Hosts Eli Beer On “Changing The Course” Podcast
Eli Beer President of United Hatzalah Eli Beer president of United Hatzalah was just a six-year-old boy when he witnessed a bombing. The memory stayed with him for a long time and he promised himself that one day he would save lives. Eli is a man who keeps his word and then some. In this week’s Read more
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When Volunteering Becomes Personal
27-year-old Yhoodit Mazooz is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and resident of the city Holon. Since she was a young girl, Yhoodit has always been fascinated with the world of volunteers and emergency medicine. Volunteering from a young age, Yhoodit has been a part of many programs and courses involving the medical field. Throughout her Read more
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Keeping a Dream and a Person Alive
On Sunday evening, just after 5:00 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer Gilad Sharabi received an emergency alert to an 83-year-old woman who had collapsed in her home on Yisrael Yishayahu Street in Petach Tikvah. Sharabi, who was just returning home from a different emergency incident where he treated a man with chest pains, sped over on Read more
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Salesforce Highlights United Hatzalah In Article On Nonprofits Tackling Coronavirus Challenges
This article originally appeared on salesforce.org’s website. By: Carmen Dowell, Director, Technology Investments at Salesforce.org and Kate Smiles, Project Coordinator, Tech for Social Impact Tech Grants at Salesforce The first shelter-in-place orders in the United States began one year ago, thrusting everyone, including nonprofit organizations, into an all-digital world. Organizations with a high digital maturity did particularly Read more
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3:00 A.M. Rescue In Jerusalem
This morning, just before 3:00 a.m., a 56-year-old mother suffered a heart attack and collapsed at her home in Jerusalem. Her worried daughter called United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and command center for assistance. The dispatcher alerted the closest responders in the vicinity while instructing the daughter to begin performing chest compressions on her collapsed mother. United Read more