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Honoring the Lifesaving Efforts Of Some Of Our Ethiopian-Israeli Volunteers
Today is the 29th of Cheshvan on the Jewish calendar, the day signifies the holiday of Sigd. Sigd is an Ethiopian-Jewish & Israeli national holiday which marks the renewal of the covenant between the Jewish people, God, and the Torah. Today, and every day, we honor the important contribution of the Ethiopian Jewish community to Read more
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Not Dying On Our Watch
On Wednesday morning at around 9:00 a.m., when United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Zahir Benish had just returned home from his morning prayers, a 91-year-old woman suffered a cardiac arrest in Carmiel. The woman was traveling in a taxi with her daughter when she lost consciousness. The driver stopped the car and called emergency services to Read more
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Jewish Federations of North America Donate Lifesaving Medical Equipment To United Hatzalah
On Sunday evening, representatives from the Jewish Federations of North America visited United Hatzalah’s logistics and equipment center, located in Har Tuv, and participated in a special ceremony dedicating 50 oxygen tanks and 20 defibrillators that were donated by the Federations to the lifesaving emergency organization. “It’s all about the people. The only way to Read more
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Being A Part of The Miracle of Bringing Someone Back To Life
On Monday afternoon, a 65-year-old woman was shopping in the Ishpro Center supermarket on HaMelahot Blvd in Modi’in when she suffered a cardiac arrest and fell unconscious to the ground. Her husband immediately called for help as shoppers and employees rushed to their side. They called emergency Services who sent out a notification to all Read more
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United Hatzalah volunteer saves baby whose mother was taken into police custody
On Thursday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yinon Tubul was driving home in Be’er Sheva when he came across a motor vehicle accident that was surrounded by policemen. A woman driver had been involved in a self-inflicted accident and sustained mild injuries. Yinon stopped to see if she needed medical attention. Read more
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Lod EMTs Reunite With the Man Whose Life They Saved
Last week on Wednesday, United Hatzalah volunteers EMT Yossi Blum and Paramedic Yair Bir responded to a cardiac arrest in Lod. The two volunteers performed a successful resuscitation on Roi Eliyahu, 34, who collapsed in his home. Yossi who was one of the first responders at the scene and initiated treatment on the Read more
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Newly Minted EMT Delivers Her Own Nephew On The Side of A Highway
Late Friday night at around 11:30 p.m., a woman in her 40th week of pregnancy began to feel contractions in her home in the Galil. After a short deliberation, she and her husband decided to drive down to Poriya Hospital in Tiberias. The woman’s sister, Gal Shemesh, is a newly graduated United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Read more
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Not Letting Israel’s Elderly Fall Through The Cracks
On Monday afternoon, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Talia Asher from Mevaseret Zion visited an elderly woman as part of the organization’s Ten Kavod project. Talia went to check on the woman’s vital signs and spend some time with her in order to alleviate the woman’s feelings of loneliness that many elderly people who live alone Read more
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The Pride in Helping Others
On Friday afternoon, an 18-year-old boy suddenly suffered from a seizure, sprawling out on the sidewalk of KK”L Street in Ashdod. A few kilometers away, Gavriel Momko and Dor Fridman were on an ambucycle shift, riding around the city ready to respond to any medical emergency. As soon as the pair of first responders received Read more
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From Learning Torah to Saving a Life
A little before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, a 97-year-old woman collapsed unconscious in her home on Bezalel Ashkenazi street in Jerusalem. Her caretaker called the United Hatzalah Dispatch and Command Center which promptly located and notified all the closest volunteer EMTs to the emergency. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Akiva Angel was learning in his Yeshiva Read more