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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
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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