Archives: Stories
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Recovering Woman Meets With First Responders Who Saved Her Life During the Last Round of Rocket Attacks
Allegra Ben Akan a resident of Kiryat Gat suffered a full system trauma injury from a rocket that was fired by Hamas militants at Israel during the last round of missile attacks from the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, she met the EMTs who were the first responders at the scene, provided her with medical treatment, Read more
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Fighting Fire With More Than EMS
United Hatzalah’s network of first responders provides more than emergency medical services (EMS). While the EMS component of the organization is certainly the flagship project, another service which the organization provides for free is the work of the PSychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit made up of psychologists, therapists, and social workers who volunteer their time Read more
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One Active Friday
Ram Oz is a 2-meter-tall combat veteran and extreme-sport enthusiast from Hod Hasharon who volunteers as a United Hatzalah EMT and drives one of the organization’s ambucycles. Recently this past Friday night, Ram responded to a stabbing incident. He zoomed over to the location on his ambucycle and saw that the attacker was a Read more
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Rescuer of The People
About a month ago, a cement truck overturned on the Nachal Tzeilim roadway near the entrance to Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avraham Levinger raced over on his ambucycle and began initial treatment and assessment for the wounded 35-year-old driver. A United Hatzalah ambulance crew arrived and in the shortest possible time Read more
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An Inspiring Story from the Ethiopian Protests
A lot of news sources reported on the violence and the traffic that transpired during the Ethiopian protests across Israel yesterday. The protests caused a lot of difficulty for many people around the country as major thoroughfares were blocked by protesters who wanted their voices heard. Some of the protests turned violent with damage being Read more
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Interrupting Prayers To Save A Choking Infant
United Hatzalah volunteer Yisrael Shavit saved a young girl in Hadera from choking on Sunday evening. After arriving in less than a minute at the scene of the incident, Shavit managed to single-handedly treat and rescue an infant from what could have been her death. Shavit described the dramatic story. “I was davening Mincha at Read more
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Rescuing People On Golda Meir Boulevard
The Ramot intersection on Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem is known as being a very problematic intersection where many accidents occur. Recently one Wednesday night, a serious 4-way collision was reported at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem. Aharon Eichler who lives in Givat Zeev and often drives by the intersection on his way too and Read more
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Disabled EMT Serves as Head of Search and Rescue Unit
Last week, United Hatzalah volunteer Eli Almoznino orchestrated the successful search and rescue operations which found three missing people. This is something Almoznino, who heads the organization’s Search and Rescue Unit, is quite used to doing. What is astounding is that Almoznino is a disabled amputee who volunteers as an EMT and as in his Read more
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Vacationing First Responders Save Two Lives In Separate Drowning Incidents
Thursday evening saw two drownings happen at hotels where EMTs happened to be vacationing. The first incident occurred at the David Dead Sea Resort and Spa located at Ein Bokek when a five-year-old boy drowned in the pool. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Chani Carmel who was also vacationing at the pool responded to the emergency Read more