On Friday, a United Hatzalah volunteer ambulance team from Modi’in reconnected with a soldier they had saved on the now infamous terror-ridden Simchat Torah two weeks ago. On the morning of October 7th, paramedic Itzik Kara mobilized an intensive care ambulance team in the face of unfolding events in the south. The team was also Read more

Today, the President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer met with the President of the United States Joe Biden during Biden’s solidarity visit to Israel. Following Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the war cabinet, the U.S. President proceeded to meet with representatives of the families of hostages, with survivors of the massacre, Read more

Today (Thursday), Governor Kathy Hochul of New York visited the national headquarters of United Hatzalah in Jerusalem while on a solidarity visit to Israel. The President and Founder of United Hatzlah Eli Beer, along with CEO Eli Pollak and VP of Operations Dovie Maisel, gave the Governor an overview of the activities of the hundreds of Read more

Moshe Weitzman from Ashdod was one of the first EMTs to respond to the Hamas massacres in southern Israel on October 7th and drove one of the first civilian ambulances into the then Hamas-controlled areas. On Thursday, October 12th, he was injured when a rocket exploded right next to him. From his hospital bed, Weitzman Read more

By Avi Moskowitz On Monday, October 9th, I traveled from Beit Shemesh down to the Dead Sea where several hotels are hosting evacuees from the south, together with fellow United Hatzalah volunteer Brynie Lezevnik. The hotel we were sent to had several families from Kibbutz Magen, Netivot and Sderot, and our role as members of Read more

By Esther Pamensky In the wake of the horrific Hamas attack in southern Israel, I found myself right in the thick of things as a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT who was volunteered to go from Jerusalem to take part in the medical response down south. The situation was intense, as you can imagine. We’re shadowing Read more

It’s been six years since Gaber Abo Gafer joined United Hazalah and founded the Rahat Chapter. On Saturday, October 7th, at the onset of the attack by Hamas against Israel, members of the Rahat chapter, responded to five missile attacks within the city of Rahat. Since the onset of the war, volunteers from the chapter Read more

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Penina Assulin, a resident of Netivot, was set to celebrate her wedding last week. However, due to the security situation in southern Israel, she and her fiance were forced to cancel the event as well as their agreement with the various planned wedding vendors. Upon learning of these challenging circumstances, United Read more

On Saturday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer physician Dr. Tarek Abu Arar was held hostage for several hours and shot twice by Hamas terrorists who had infiltrated southern Israel. Dr. Abu Arar, a resident of Arara BaNegev, was driving to his shift in the ER at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon on Saturday morning when at a Read more

Roman Firas, the Head of the East Jerusalem Chapter of United Hatzalah, is a father of four and a dedicated United Hatzalah volunteer, hailing from the town of Ein-Rafa, located near Jerusalem and next to Abu Gosh. On Monday, October 9th, 2023, in the midst of the current war between Israel and Hamas militants, a Read more