On Monday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides visited United Hatzalah headquarters in Jerusalem to learn about the work of Israel’s largest fully-volunteer EMS service. Nides is the second U.S. Ambassador to visit the organization after former Ambassador Friedman visited during his tenure as well. Nides was accompanied by Real Estate Developer Menachem Oren, Read more

It is a well-known fact among oncology patients, that one of the effects of chemotherapy, is that the patient’s immune system shuts down for the duration of the treatments. Thus “if an oncology patient develops even a slight fever, they need to rush to the emergency room in order to undergo observation and receive treatment Read more

On Thursday morning just after 1:00 A.M., emergency services received a call from a man in his 60s who was experiencing unusual body pains in one of the northern neighborhoods of Jerusalem. While on the phone with the dispatch center, the man suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed. United Hatzalah volunteer Yehuda Chaim Elbaz was Read more

On Wednesday morning former NBA players Mark West and Eddie Johnson visited United Hatzalah’s headquarters in Jerusalem. The visit, organized by “Athletes for Israel,” provided the basketball veterans with a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insight into the life-saving work carried out by United Hatzalah’s network of volunteers, and foster a deeper connection to the Read more

On Thursday morning, just before 9 A.M., a man in his 60s experienced a sudden cardiac arrest during Torah study in the Gur beit midrash in Jerusalem. A person with medical training immediately initiated CPR and alerted emergency services. Yisrael Litzman, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and a Gur Chasid himself happened to be near Read more

This past Sunday in the town of Gan Ner next to Afula, an 84-year-old man suffered a sudden heart attack and collapsed on the couch in his home. At the same time, Shlomi Asaraf, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and the local Deputy Chapter Head of the Afula region was relaxing on his back porch. Read more

Three weeks ago in Rehovot, United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Yinon Dahan, Amit Sinai, Tevel Arbel, and Asher Malka, responded to an emergency call following a cardiac arrest on Shabbat afternoon. Unfortunately, the resuscitation attempt failed, and the patient’s death had to be pronounced at the scene. However, immediately after leaving that distressing scene, they received Read more

Jerusalem’s Old City witnessed a heartwarming and meticulously planned marriage proposal last week as Alon Paz, who is fully paralyzed and reliant on ventilation to breathe, proposed to his girlfriend thanks to the assistance of a United Hatzalah intensive care ambulance team. The heartfelt ceremony took place last Tuesday in the square of the historic Read more

Westport Connecticut was the location of a walking marathon, not measured by the participants’ speed but by their selflessness. David and Lauren Sussman, Tristate Committee members, organized the Steps 4 Life Race a 26.2 Mile walk around Westport aimed at raising money and awareness for United Hatzalah’s life-saving work.  The Sussmans love to walk and Read more

An 80-year-old British tourist who suffered a cardiac arrest in a hotel in Cyprus was saved thanks to the quick response of a United Hatzalah volunteer who happened to be staying in the same hotel. The incident took place on Friday morning when Rachel Weintraub Yedan, a resident of Afula on vacation in the country, Read more