יום שישי, י״ח תמוז תשפ״וFriday, July 3, 2026
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“This was a stressful incident because I was alone, without equipment, for about 13 minutes."
Haim works closely with the entire agriculture staff, and the person in need is his friend.
I learned that evening that the statistics are stacked against people and that only 3-4 percent of the people who receive CPR survive.
Help was just 30 second away.
"Being part of this right before the holiday of Hanukkah gave me a lot of joy.”
“It was an extremely stressful situation because we were trying to revive a man who had suffered a cardiac arrest on the side of a major roadway."
Hatzalah dispatcher Chanoch Re’em began instructing the secretary and the staff at the dentist’s office on how to perform CPR.
“When I was living in Toronto, I never thought I’d be responding to medical emergencies."
“After the third shock was administered, the man began to resist compressions, a sign that he was coming back to life.”
"After saving someone’s life the sensation of euphoria I got wouldn’t let me sleep."
"I feel so overjoyed at having saved this man’s life on Purim. It felt to me like I had won the lottery.”
"When Shabbat ended, I called my old neighbor and told him that the defibrillator he had donated just helped save another life."
I can’t explain the feeling I had as I drove my ambucycle back home and walked into my living room to see my family still waiting for me.
By JTA
Tragedy has brought out the strength of the Kadish family following the summer camp lightning strike that left their 12-year-old son in critical condition. Now he is 13. His Bar Mitzvah will be in a hospital.
July 3, 2026 
