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By Adele Pnina Gaziel I had just left my mother's home in Rehovot on Thursday evening after bringing her some supplies. My brother and sister-in-law were visiting with their family. My car had broken down due to a dead battery, and I received a jump start from a member of a volunteer car service organization […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Leo Dee cut the ribbon at the ceremony for the state-of-the-art car in memory of terror victims Lucy, Maia and Rina.
I asked the flight crew and passengers for sweets, and everyone was eager to help.
United Hatzalah in Gush Etzion is well-known among local Arabs, often arriving first to the scene of the numerous traffic accidents involving Arab drivers on the roads.
EMT Kalanit Taub found an Arab to act as a translator and began calming down the hysterical daughter of the trapped man.
Rabbi Sinai Halberstam issued a ruling to the volunteers of the United Hatzalah in the city that It is a mitzvah and absolute obligation to carry the weapons with them even on Shabbat and holidays as long as the threat of terrorism exists.
They took turns performing chest compressions in front of the terrified family members.
They said that if I hadn’t been home or hadn’t known what to do in this life-threatening situation, Miriam wouldn’t be with us anymore.
“Shootings like this one were once virtually unheard of in Sakhnin."
Upon receiving the call Rabbi Cohen sprung out of bed and managed to get to the scene on his ambucycle only a few minutes later.
United Hatzalah's Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit were dispatched to the scene.
“I’ve done three successful CPRs with this defibrillator. That's a lot for one of these machines."
“We were told in training that it would be unlikely that we would need to use the CPR skills that we learned."
"We went through a vigorous course in United Hatzalah in a short amount of time and now we are ready to give back to our homeland.”
"The joy I felt at hearing that was incomparable," Shimi said.
“The mission of saving lives is not unique to one religion or one people."
Just after 8:30 Sunday morning, an employee at a school on Shalom Sharabi Street in Petah Tikvah told one of his colleagues that he wasn’t feeling well. He sat down on a bench and keeled over. His colleagues, who all had taken a CPR course, called emergency services and proceeded to attach the school’s defibrillator […]
"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."
“After the medical emergency had ended, we had to deal with the emotional fallout.”
Two baby girls born to surrogate mothers and abandoned in Kiev had to be rescued from the shelled city and delivered to their Israeli parents.
After a few minutes, the woman began to calm down and her excitement at the prospect of immigrating to Israel took over.
I never imagined I would be putting my school-days' connections to use in this way, but we do whatever is in our power to help.
Raisa was one of 160 refugees brought to Israel on Thursday by United Hatzalah.
“As the fighting continues in Ukraine, we can only expect the number of refugees traveling across the country’s western borders to grow,” IsraAid said.
Amid Rising Tensions in Ukraine, United Hatzalah Teams Throughout The Country Maintain Vigilance
The humanitarian aid mission will make its way to the Moldova/Ukraine border over the course of the next few hours.
"When I saw children hiding under the bed, I knew that I had to get them out as quickly as possible.”
Almost three weeks ago, on a Monday evening at the soccer game between Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Maccabi Haifa in the Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium in Be'er Sheva, Yossi Cohen, 42, suffered a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, United Hatzalah volunteer paramedic Gal Mazor was on hand as part of the medical team UH sends to all […]
When Yehoyada arrived he found the older gentleman lying in bed, conscious and awake, surrounded by worried family members.
“The ambulance is a memorial to my parents and what they taught me."
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"She was later taken by ambulance while still undergoing CPR, to the Carmel Medical Center."
"Being part of this right before the holiday of Hanukkah gave me a lot of joy.”
Providing emotional care in a stressful situation.
EMT responds to emergency calls only to find an old friend suffering from a drug overdose, and saves his life twice on the same day.
"Knowing what to do makes all the difference.”
Saving a life with the right equipment and a quick response.
"Our wedding was put on hold for a while."
“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."
One of the United Hatzalah ambucycles was recovered near Hebron.
One of the thousands of people who were first responders on 9/11 is a resident of Efrat and a United Hatzalah volunteer. His name is Eric Andron.
If the person requesting help is female, it would be more halachically correct that she be treated by another female than by a male.
The knife had torn right through the woman’s carotid artery, leaving her very few minutes to live before she bled out completely.
"I kept thinking of my own daughter, who is the same age as the boy I treated."
“I’m not sure if he came to me knowing that I am an EMT, or just because my store was open late."
“After the third shock was administered, the man began to resist compressions, a sign that he was coming back to life.”
United Hatzalah Ambulance Team in Moshav Kadima Joined a CPR in progress on Sunday morning and saves the life of a very heavy, 49-year-old man
On Sunday early afternoon, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Ron Cohen was at home in northern Tel Aviv when his communications device began to ring, alerting him to a medical emergency nearby. A few buildings away, a year-and-a-half-old baby girl began choking, and her frantic mother had called United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center. “I glanced […]
"I got stuck in traffic because I had been late getting out, which is why I was close enough to rush back home and help save my father’s life.”
United Hatzalah EMTS visit a boy, 15, they treated 10 days before when his life had been saved miraculously.
First response teams arrived at the scene and provided the two wounded initial treatment before they were evacuated them to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital.
The type of things that one thinks about as a religious Jew in a shtetl or a small community are not the type of things that one has to think about as part of an entire country.
"After saving someone’s life the sensation of euphoria I got wouldn’t let me sleep."
Mustafa, who only a few days ago responded to a shooting incident and was only able to save one of the people involved, said that this was some compensation to him for that tragedy.
"Should any of these volunteers change their mind and elect to receive the vaccine, or should this virus disappear completely, we would welcome them back with open arms."
The new volunteer house in Kfar Qassem will serve as the first installment of support by Zim Urban Life.
"Sometimes when a CPR is unsuccessful, a responder can become less hopeful about the chances of saving the next patient."
“We are going to be the first national organization that is 100% vaccinated."
United Hatzalah volunteers Alber Anconina, Ruth Hadassi, Ohad Ringer, and Dekel Shem Tov were each going about their daily routines when they received the alert.
“Whenever someone can save a life and is successful at it, it's an incredible feeling, but frankly, anytime I can help a person it gives me a good feeling."
After a fire erupts in a residential building a young woman helps evacuate the building as her mother, a licensed psychologist, rushes to provide psychological first aid to those in shock.
The project has already received a high volume of requests, and hundreds of individuals are expected to use the service in the next two weeks, while the lockdown is on.
“Providing oxygen is one of the most essential roles of a medical first responder,” said President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer.
"I can't be sure if the ambulance was the intended target of the stones or not."
The trapped people from the ATV took refuge on the roof of the vehicle.
Last week, the boy, Adam, celebrated his own 11th birthday. Aharon surprised him at the birthday party to finish the show that he ended abruptly three-and-a-half months earlier.
“Today certainty has been a bit different,” Daniel said after returning home from the third birth of the morning.
"This is the daily heroism that is shown by these women, who I am proud to call my fellow EMS responders, my associates, and my friends."
With his vibrant purple hair and multiple piercings, Dvir does not look like a guy who grew up in a Haredi home, but he did, in Jerusalem.
Israel's previous health minister did not have a good relationship with the popular volunteer EMT organization.
“I was made aware that I could donate plasma and that this would help save the lives of others who are suffering from this terrible disease,” Beer said on Sunday.
In cities with a high volume of traffic congestion, such as Tel Aviv, traveling to a medical emergency by car can take a long time.
The program pairs psychologists and therapists who are part of the PCRU in Israel with frontline workers in the US for a completely anonymous and free session.
Over and over again he kept losing his pulse.
By Eli Beer
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was suffering from something called ICU Delerium.
Eli Mizrachi will turn 80 this week and is the oldest, active volunteer EMT, first responder in United Hatzalah, and perhaps in Israel.
After coming out of a month-long coma, Eli' beer's first question was, "When is Pesach?”
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox are helping those in need during the coronavirus crisis.
Volunteers from the Bnei Brak chapter of United Hatzalah are providing care for approximately 50 residents who live in the old age home.
The terrorist was overpowered by a United Hatzalah EMT.
The wounded are IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade who were in Jerusalem for their swearing in ceremony.
By Raphael Poch
Only a handful of United Hatzalah medics have EpiPens. You can change that!
Don't worry. It's all just makeup.
Foreign caretakers work with the sick and elderly, which makes their having this knowledge even more useful.
What really makes the annual United Hatzalah concert unique is...
Asher Elmaliach was stabbed in the heart by a terrorist.
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Miriam Ballin, a native of Houston and the Director of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit leads the mission.
The female terrorist purposely rammed into a police vehicle.
At a concert fundraiser for Israel’s United Hatzalah held at Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday, Jay Leno performed a comedy set and donated a fully equipped ambucycle for the EMS organization to use to save lives in Israel.
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Helping tourists from Nepal to Meron...
Israeli rescue organizations bringing aid and expertise to the devastated Nepalese.
United Hatzalah made sure more people were saved as the Rabbi Wosner's funeral turned life-threatening.
Eli Beer stunned the 16,500 AIPAC conference participants by arriving on stage with lights and sirens blaring on an ambucycle, a specially equipped motorcycle ambulance designed by United Hatzalah to speed up emergency response times.
Three car accident near Beit Shemesh on Saturday evening. At least 10 injured.
United Hatzalah, Israel’s largest emergency medical response organization received a new ‘Ambucycle’ from Columbus donors.
By JTA
The official exchange rate is one dollar per point.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Ukrainian Jews Receive Emergency Training from ZAKA and United Hatzalah.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai gives special tour in and around the United Hatzalah Center in Jerusalem.
British Ambassador Matthew Gould teamed up with United Hatzalah on emergency medical calls in Tel Aviv last Saturday night, getting a firsthand glimpse of the life-saving work the group does in Israel.
JERUSALEM – Not in his wildest imagination could United Hatzalah of Israel (UHI) founder and chief coordinator Eli Beer have pictured himself giving a speech to global business leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – while simultaneously starring in a documentary about the unprecedented cooperation between Jewish and Arab UHI volunteers broadcast last week across the Arab world on the al-Jazeera satellite TV network.
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