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Pre-Shabbat Rescue in Ashdod
On Friday afternoon, a man in his mid-fifties was sitting in his living room in his apartment in Ashdod relaxing, just before Shabbat began. He began to feel constricting pains in his chest, and after a few minutes told his wife that he wasn’t feeling well. He tried to stand up but lost consciousness and Read more
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EMT Saves Neighbor With Hour-Long CPR Effort
On Monday morning just before 9:00 a.m., United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Or Krigman was in his home in the city of Ariel with his wife and two sick daughters. With both daughters under the age of three, Or was helping his wife as she had a work meeting to attend. Suddenly, Or’s communications device began Read more
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Saving The Life Of a Southern Neighbor
Two weeks ago, at 7:00 PM on Tuesday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Eli Koon was in his home in Kibbutz Eilot, located a few minutes away from Eilat, when he received an emergency alert to a suspected stroke on his Kibbutz. Eli, who was just 200 meters away from the location, jumped on his Read more
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Unity In The Name Of Sport
Like many other countries, Israel is no stranger to unity in the name of sport. With soccer being the national sport in Israel with hundreds of teams and multiple leagues, large games containing thousands of fans occur regularly. In every sporting event, as mandated by law, there must be a medical crew on sight, ready Read more
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Ramadan Rescue Of Muslim Man In Jewish Town of Neriya
A Muslim construction worker in his 40s was working on a new construction site near the horse ranch in the town of Neriya in western Binyamin. During his work with a cement mixer, he was accidentally electrocuted, causing a power outage throughout the town. Eyewitnesses who saw the incident called emergency services for help. Several Read more
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From Minibus To Ambucycle, A Volunteer EMT Speaks About A Life He Saved
Sasson Dabul is a mini-bus driver who lives in Ramat HaSharon and works all over the country. In his spare time, he volunteers as an EMT with United Hatzalah, which means that he is always on call, even when he is driving his passengers to where they need to go. Passionate about lifesaving, Sasson is Read more
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Leaving Prayers To Heal Trauma, Both Physical and Racial
On Monday morning, just after 7:00 a.m., Daniel Katzenstein, a United Hatzalah volunteer who works at United Hatzalah’s offices, was in his local synagogue in the Neve Ya’akov neighborhood of Jerusalem, when his emergency communications device began to ring. Just a block away, there was a violent interaction between an Arab road worker and a Read more
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Beating The Clock To Save A Life
On Sunday night just after 8 p.m., a 43-year-old man with no chronic illnesses was on a jog on Metula street in Holon when he suddenly collapsed. Alarmed neighbors who witnessed the man collapse quickly called United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center. Just three minutes after the neighbor called, United Hatzalah volunteers began arriving at Read more
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EMTs Save Life of Arab Boy With Chronic Heart Condition
In the northern Muslim town of Deir el-Asad, a two-year-old boy who suffers from a chronic heart condition known as VSD, suffered a complication and fell unconscious at his home on Monday morning. His worried mother called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Mustafa Abed Assadi, Adiv Boqua’ai, and regional paramedic Nissim Zinaty Read more
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Two Muslim Ambulance Drivers Save The Life Of a Collapsed Neighbor
On Wednesday morning, just before 9:00 a.m. in the town of Jadeidi-Makr in the Galilee, Farok Dabas was sleeping after a long ambulance shift the previous night, when his United Hatzalah communication device begins to chime, alerting him to a medical emergency taking place nearby. A 79-year-old man, who lived one block away from Farok, Read more