Archives: Stories
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I Became An EMT To Help My Daughter, Last Night I Saved Someone Else’s
My name is Chagit Biton, I live in Kiryat Malachi and I make wigs for a living. Thank G-d I have 8 children. Five years ago, my daughter Shaina was born with a severe case of epilepsy. Aside from when she is studying in a special educational facility, I have to be by her side Read more
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Easing The Ongoing Trauma Of Not Knowing – Together
As rescue efforts in the community of Surfside, Florida continue, United Hatzalah of Israel was dispatched on Saturday night together with the IDF’s Home Front Command in order to assist the forces and people on the ground cope with the ongoing rescue operations that have been taking place since Thursday morning. The Israeli teams departed Read more
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The Beauty Of Humanity Brought Out By a Therapy Dog
Batya Jaffe is one of the six Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit (PCRU) members from United Hatzalah currently active in Surfside, Florida. Batya is an Animal Assisted Therapist and together with her dog Lucy, a specially trained King Charles Cavalier, she is providing assistance to families whose loved ones are missing or deceased as a Read more
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United Hatzalah of Israel Sending Delegation To Provide Psychological First Aid and Support to Surfside Community Following Condo Collapse
United Hatzalah of Israel working in conjunction with El Al Airlines is sending a team from its Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to provide psychological support and stabilization to the families and neighbors of those injured, killed, or affected by the tragedy that occurred in Surfside Florida. The team’s mission will be to assist the Read more
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Knowing What To Do On Shabbat
On a recent Shabbat at the end of May, a two-year-old girl was suffering from a suspected respiratory emergency at her home on HaShophet Haim Cohen Street in Jerusalem. United Hatzalah physician responder Dr. Aviram Zeiler left his synagogue and raced to the scene. Fayyad Asilah, a United Hatzalah medic from east Jerusalem who works Read more
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Arriving in The Nick Of Time
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Itzhak Miro, who hails from Tirat Carmel, a suburb of Haifa on the western slopes of Mount Carmel, was relaxing at home late one evening a few weeks ago, when all of a sudden the emergency alert siren on his phone began to sound notifying him that a medical emergency was Read more
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EMT Saves A Life On The Way To His Son’s Graduation
On Monday night, just after 7:00 p.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Haim Gil David was on his way out of his apartment in Netanya. Haim Gil and his family were heading out to the graduation of Haim’s son’s 8th-grade graduation ceremony when his communication device alerted him to a nearby medical emergency. With a supportive Read more
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EMT Uses New Defibrillator and Medical Kit To Save A Life
On Sunday night in Beitar Illit, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shlomo Caap was in the local synagogue attending a lecture when his communications device alerted him to a nearby medical emergency. A block away, right across from Shlomo’s apartment building, a 60-year-old man with no severe medical background suddenly collapsed in his apartment. A family Read more
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Helping Others Is What Life Is All About
On Sunday afternoon, a man in his 70s had just finished a medical checkup at the MAR Institute on Rav Kook Street and was heading outside when he suddenly collapsed near the exit of the building. The medical staff at the center called emergency services attached a defibrillator and initiated CPR. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Read more
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It’s About Doing The Work And Helping Others
On Wednesday morning just after 10:00 a.m. David Birnbaum, who works as the director of a Yeshiva in the city of Hadera and also volunteers as a United Hatzalah EMT, received an emergency alert from his communications device notifying him of a medical emergency occurring nearby. David, who is a veteran EMT, quickly stopped what Read more