Archives: Stories
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A Mid-Air Rescue In the Time of Corona
This past Sunday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Moshe Weitzman, who lives in Ashdod, was flying back to Israel from London via Istanbul and responded to a medical emergency a few rows back from his seat on the plane. Moshe quickly intervened and assisted the woman who was having difficulty breathing. “As there were no Read more
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EMT Saves Her Own Husband’s Life
Geulah Pollak has been a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT for the past 4 years. She has previous experience as a first responder but took hiatus for about 10 years prior to joining United Hatzalah due to a mild injury. “I always wanted t get back into the field and become a first responder once again Read more
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Saving A Life In a 12 Minute Traffic Jam
Yossi Rotenberg works as the deputy director of a branch of Shufersal in the center of the country. This past Friday afternoon, Yossi had just left work and was on his way to drop off some supplies for his daughter who lives in Haifa. He punched the address into Waze and the phone application sent Read more
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This Rescue Was Not By Chance – Due to a series of unforeseen delays, First Responder en route to conduct Coronavirus testing happens to be at the right place at the right time to save a life.
This wasn’t a typical medical emergency alert that I usually get. As a matter of fact, there was no alert. Call it what you will, divine intervention, comedy of errors, sheer luck, karma. But whatever you want to call it, the important thing is that a man’s life was saved in a miraculous and unique Read more
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Making The Rendezvous – Two EMTs Use A Rescue ATV To Save The Life Of A Patient Stranded on a Muddy Beach
On a Shabbat afternoon two weeks ago, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Noam Lifshin, was sitting in his home in the town of Shavei Zion in the Galilee, enjoying time with his family, when he received an alert from his communications device, about an emergency occurring nearby. The given location was unclear, but Noam recognized that Read more
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The Third Time Is Charming – Pair of EMTs respond to three births in the span of 6 hours
Early Monday morning, the very dedicated father, grandfather, and United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Daniel Katzenstein received a phone call from his daughter wishing him mazal tov and telling him that he just became a grandfather once again. In spite of the hour, 2:30 a.m. Daniel didn’t wait for the morning and began to head out Read more
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“Everyone Deserves To Be Respected”
One month ago, a 13-year-old boy took advantage of his parents going away on a vacation and decided to throw a party in his home in Geva Binyamin. He invited a couple of friends over on Friday night and they brought alcohol. The teenagers began drinking and enjoying their time, not realizing exactly how much Read more
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Anaphylactic Reaction Nearly Brings Tragedy To Quiet Shabbat Meal
Two months ago, a family was sitting in their home in Haifa on Friday night for their Shabbat meal. Everything was carrying on as normal until the mother noticed that her 4-year-old son was having trouble breathing. She asked her son if he was ok, but his breathing only worsened as his face grew pale. Read more
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Why I’m Proud To Call These Women My Friends
At 1:30 a.m. on Saturday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and Deputy Chapter Head of the Emek HaHula region of the organization, Vicki Tiferet, was alerted to a medical emergency involving a threat to human life and three missing people. Vicki got dressed and rushed out of her home in Moshav Yuval and raced to Read more
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Health, Home Improvement & Humanitarian Aid. A Community Rallies Together To Do It All
On Saturday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Bismouth responded to a medical emergency involving a person who dehydrated at the address of a man whom he had helped once before. Bismouth, recognizing the address, knew that the man was in dire need of assistance and rushed to help. Arriving in just under three minutes, Read more