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Jerusalem Honors Local EMS Volunteers For Saving Lives
The Jerusalem Municipality honored exemplary first responders on Thursday at a special ceremony that took place at City Hall. Among the honorees presented with citations from the city for their exemplary service were select volunteers from the police, fire department, ambulance organizations and the United Hatzalah EMS organization. Chosen from among the more than 400 Read more
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French Immigrant Become First Tel Aviv Woman To Ride An Ambucycle
Aely Haccoun immigrated from France to Israel eight years ago. Like most immigrants, she worked hard to learn the language, find a job and an apartment in a good neighborhood and has been happy living in Tel Aviv, the city she now calls home. One of the things that make Aely unique is that after Read more
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Saving My Own Mother
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Noa Salant was shocked when she responded to an emergency incident to find her mother to be the patient in need of medical care. The family was supposed to get together for some quality time and both Noa and her mother were arriving by bicycle from different locations. “As I was Read more
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Following A Medical Emergency One EMT Became A Kindergarten Teacher For A Day
This past Monday, a medical emergency took place in Haifa that ended with an interesting twist. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Raphael Israel was on his way to his Mechanical engineering class at the Technion University when he received an emergency alert from the organization’s dispatch center that notified him about a medical emergency occurring at Read more
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Israeli EMT Rescues Injured Hiker in India’s Himalayan Mountains
This past Friday just before Shabbat began, an Israeli hiker fell approximately 40 meters down while trekking up the Bashisht mountains near the town of Old Manali, India. Chabad Rabbi, Menachem Bakush, who works out of the Chabad house in Old Manali was notified about the event. Bakush, who is a trained EMT and volunteered Read more
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Dramatic Rescue Saves Infant Locked in A Hot Car
Last Thursday a dramatic car rescue took place after an infant was accidentally locked inside a hot car. The mother of the child wrote the following after the lifesaving rescue. “ Even while writing this, hours after the incident, I am still shaking. Earlier today I was out shopping and when I came back Read more
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United Hatzalah Raises $5.5 Million at 2nd Annual NYC Gala
This past Thursday, Friends of United Hatzalah raised $5.5 Million at their annual 2nd gala dinner in New York City. The event brought 1,300 people from all over the city and surrounding areas in support of the lifesaving EMS work that United Hatzalah does in Israel and other countries around the globe. The gala included Read more
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Standing Guard At Jerusalem’s Crossings – A Ramadan Initiative To Safeguard Palestinians Wishing To Enter Jerusalem
A new project has been taking place over the past few weeks in Jerusalem. During the hot days of Ramadan, United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs have been asked to join Israel’s border police and the military police in safeguarding the passage of Palestinians entering into Israel at two Jerusalem crossings, Kalandia and the 300 crossing by Read more
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Precautions For a Safe Lag Ba’Omer
Lag Ba’omer is a holiday during which many people have a tradition to light bonfires. It is with this in mind that United Hatzalah has issued the following precautions to help people avoid injuries big or small, and provide instructions on what to do should a person get injured. Often these injuries tend to happen Read more
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United Hatzalah Augments Tel Aviv Team Ahead of Eurovision and White Night
Tonight, from all over the country, United Hatzalah volunteer ambucycle drivers are heading to Tel Aviv to provide emergency medical coverage at the plethora of cultural events taking place in the city over the weekend. With the semi-final and final performances of Eurovision, as well as Tel Aviv’s annual White Night celebrations, the city has Read more