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A Not-So-Typical Day of Life-Saving In Bnei Brak
Menachem Shechter lives in the city of Bnei Brak in Israel, is a devoted husband and father of three. Menachem runs a shoe store in Bnei Brak and also volunteers as a United Hatzalah EMT and as a Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit (PCRU) first responder, providing psychological first aid at the scenes of traumatic Read more
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Treating Each Person As Their Own World
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Betzalel Sabag lives in Rehovot with his family. Betzalel works in an office in Ramat Gan near the Aluf Sadeh interchange. One recent Sunday morning, traffic across the center of the country was at a crawl. Betzalel said that “As I was heading to work, traffic felt as if the entire Read more
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My Saturday of Saving The Elderly
One recent Saturday morning, Adir received an alert about a 90-year-old man who sustained head and back injuries when he fell in his bathroom. Racing to the given location on his ambucycle, Adir arrived at the victim’s apartment just three minutes after receiving the alert. Adir stabilized the patient in a secure position and then Read more
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Bringing Light To Israel’s Elderly On Chanukah and All Year Round
Hundreds of emergency medical service volunteers from United Hatzalah visited with elderly or sick patients in hospitals and elderly people in their homes across the country. The volunteers made these visits in order to share a little bit of the light of Chanukah with those who are in need of an extra bit of joy. Read more
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Dramatic CPR on Train Saves A Life
United Hatzalah paramedic Liad Ohana was traveling by train from his home in Ofakim to Tel Aviv on Monday morning when he heard screams coming from the seat behind him. A man had collapsed and was unconscious. Liad immediately rushed over to the man checked his pulse and having found none, began compressions. “I Read more
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Treating An Acute Stress Reaction That Resulted From a Medical Trauma — Psychological First Aid In Action
Irit Ravid is one of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma Crisis and Response Unit (PCRU) responders. She is ready to assist someone suffering emotional or psychological distress at any time of the day or night. A recent medical emergency occurred on her moshav, Nahala, in which her psychotrauma training made all the difference. Irit RavidThe incident Read more
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Netflix, Sports & Politics: a Chanukah initiative
(By Sarah Bechor) Let me ask you a question. What do basketball, the courtroom, Christianity, Netflix, modeling, and politics all have in common? Most of the year, absolutely nothing. But this week- the week before Hanukkah- absolutely everything. Amare Stoudemire, Alan Dershowitz, Pastor John Hagee, Lior Raz, Adar Gandelsman and David Friedman all have a Read more
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Developing Positivity In The Community
One recent afternoon, a worker fell off a newly casted concrete ledge at a water park under construction in Modi’in, landing on a pile of wooden beams. Coworkers urgently called for help. Yigal’s ambucycle outside of the waterpark in Modi’inUnited Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yigal Levi was at work when the alert came in and immediately Read more
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Canadian Philanthropist Can’t Stop Saving Lives In Israel
Renowned International Philanthropist Miles S. Nadal and his family, who previously donated 12 ambucycles to Israel’s national volunteer EMS organization United Hatzalah, arrived in Israel at end of last month, to dedicate the new Miles S. Nadal Family Square outside the organization’s Jerusalem headquarters. The organization uses the Beautiful Garden for all of its vehicle Read more
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Saving Lives on Highway 505
Mordechai Ben-Or lives in the town of Rechelim in Samaria with his wife and three children. The town lies near the junctions of Highway 60 and Highway 505. The highways are both critical access roads each one connecting between towns and villages, both Jewish and Palestinian. Highway 505, in particular, is critical as it connects Read more