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Nahariya Man Collapses Mid-Exercise At A Local Gym
On Wednesday in Nahariya, at around 8:00 p.m., a 50-year-old man was performing his intense exercise regimen in a local gym when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed. His fellow gym mates stopped their respective workouts, rushed to offer assistance, and called emergency services for help. Zaid Ihab, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, Read more
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Man Collapses on Shabbat Morning In Pisgat Ze’ev, Wakes Up on Shavuot, Thanks To Quick Acting EMTs
On Shabbat morning at approximately 11:00 a.m. a man in his late 40s suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed on the floor of his home in front of his wife and son on Shlomo Street in Pisgat Ze’ev. The distraught family members called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Gili Tal Read more
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Saving A Life With The Press of a Button
On Friday night at around 9:00 p.m, a 64-year-old man lost consciousness in a synagogue in the Ezrat Torah neighborhood of Jerusalem during the Friday evening prayer service. A congregant who was a witness to the collapse ran over to the Nedarim Plus emergency alert system hanging on the wall and tapped the help button Read more
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Teenage Arab Boy Injured in Umm al-Fahm Firefight Rescued By Jewish and Arab First Responders
Just before midnight on Tuesday in Umm al- Fahm, sounds of gunshots blared through the city. The attack was on one house in particular, for reasons unknown. A 19-year-old boy was injured and sustained a wound from a flying piece of shrapnel that struck his lower back. A United Hatzalah volunteer Paramedic, Yaakov Levi from Read more
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A Thousand Little Shards
By Dvir Adani I arrive at the scene, turn off my siren, and cut the engine of my ambucycle. The sight is a difficult one to look at. A young girl, lying on the asphalt helplessly. We do everything we can to try to save her life. The ambulance arrives. We lift her Read more
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Givataym Jogger Undergoes Successful CPR After Collapsing Mid-Stride
On Sunday night just before 10:00 p.m., a man in his 30s was jogging down HaKnesset Street in Givatayim when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed on the street. Worried onlookers who witnessed the collapse began performing CPR and called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Dan Gildoni was relaxing at Read more
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A Heart Stopping Talmud Lesson
On Monday evening at around 8:00 p.m., a man in his seventies lost consciousness during a Gemara lesson in a synagogue in Kfar Chabad. He fell over sideways onto the person sitting next to him. When the man tried waking him and received no response, those in the class called emergency services for help. Luckily, Read more
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Right Before my Eyes
On Wednesday at around 10:00 p.m., a young man riding an electric scooter was involved in a crash with a car that took place at the busy intersection of Bnei Brith Boulevard and Palmach Street. The crash left the 19-year-old scooter rider critically injured and unconscious on the street. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Dor Fridman Read more
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Making sure breakfast’s Bracha Rishona wasn’t a Bracha Achrona
At around 9:15 on Friday morning, a 75-year-old man was eating breakfast in the kitchen of his home in Afula when he lost consciousness and fell to the floor. The man’s wife, son, and daughter were there with him and called emergency services for help. Karen Ezouz, a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, was shopping Read more
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Strength to Overcome The Hardships of Life – Ten Kavod Ashdod The story of Rivka Yankovitz and Tamar Felish
Strength to Overcome The Hardships of Life – Ten Kavod Ashdod The story of Rivka Yankovitz and Tamar Felish Rivka Yankovitz- Rivka is the Ten Kavod coordinator in Ashdod and works hard to grow the program and build it up to help even more of the seniors in the city. She, herself, volunteers Read more