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UNPACKED: Watch How United Hatzalah Volunteers Reach Emergencies Faster than an Ambulance

UNPACKED: Watch How United Hatzalah Volunteers Reach Emergencies Faster than an Ambulance United Hatzalah, a non-profit medical response service founded by Eli Beer in 2006, provides free emergency treatment and ambulance transportation to anyone in Israe

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Israeli EMS Org. United Hatzalah Sending a Delegation to Moldova to Assist Ukrainian Refugees

Israeli EMS Org. United Hatzalah Sending a Delegation to Moldova to Assist Ukrainian Refugees United Hatzalah is currently preparing to send a delegation of 30 emergency medical volunteers and members of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to Moldov

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Israel Seen EXCLUSIVE – Saving the Life of A Badly Injured Cyclist

Israel Seen EXCLUSIVE – Saving the Life of A Badly Injured Cyclist At approximately 6:30 p.m. on Monday evening, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Itai Strominger was eating dinner with his family in their home in Be’er Milka. At the same time, a man

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IsraelSeen – Helping a Young Girl After A Three Storey Fall

IsraelSeen – Helping a Young Girl After A Three Storey Fall On Tuesday night, at 19:45 p.m., a 12-year-old girl was with her friends in the Sarig outdoor mall, located in the city of Binyamina. The young adults were enjoying playing around the mall,

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IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different”

IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different” EMTs respond quickly to save seriously injured motorcyclist after a major crash. Early one Friday afternoon in the middle of February, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Netanel Moya

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IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush

IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush On Tuesday afternoon, volunteer EMT Chezy Roth was at his store in central Jerusalem, tending to his customers who were going about their last-minute Purim shopping when his communications device

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Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed

Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed On Wednesday afternoon in Givat Ze’ev, a young boy just under two years old was playing in his backyard when he tripped and landed on the family’s jacuzzi

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Israel Seen Exclusive – “Not Only Do We Deliver… We Deliver”

Israel Seen Exclusive – “Not Only Do We Deliver… We Deliver” David Abell is a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and an Oleh Chadash living in the Israeli coastal city of Ra’anana. Prior to making aliyah, David lived in Chicago and was very activ

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IsraelSeen Exclusive Taking Break From Coffee To Save A Life

IsraelSeen Exclusive Taking Break From Coffee To Save A Life Ebud Beker is a Muslim United Hatzalah EMT hailing from a small village in East Jerusalem. This past Friday, Ebud was enjoying a coffee with his two brothers at a local coffee shop when his emer

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Providing Better Care For Your Patients By Befriending Fellow First Responders

Providing Better Care For Your Patients By Befriending Fellow First Responders Yitzhak Sheinberg, a United Hatzalah volunteer from Haifa, works as a nurse’s assistant for a local health clinic. He is married and has two children. Since the summer, Yitzh

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New York Fire Department Won’t Require Medics, Firefighters to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

New York’s governor and New York City’s mayor have been two of the most ardent proponents of everything that is

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Exclusive Devo Klein - United Hatzalah Head of Strategy Saves Local Grocery Store Owner

Exclusive Devo Klein – United Hatzalah Head of Strategy Saves Local Grocery Store Owner When Moti Elmaliach is not working as the head of strategy and PR at United Hatzalah, he is out saving lives as one of the organization’s 6,000 volunteer EMTs.

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Exclusive - EMTs Perform Successful CPR and Save The Life Of A Collapsed Kfar Saba Woman

Exclusive – EMTs Perform Successful CPR and Save The Life Of A Collapsed Kfar Saba Woman On Wednesday night, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shalom Zohar was resting in his home in  Kfar Saba, when he received an emergency alert on his communications

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Exclusive - Participating In A Miracle On A Construction Sight

Exclusive – Participating In A Miracle On A Construction Sight One afternoon a few months ago, United Hatzalah EMT Omer Elian, was at a customer’s office, installing a door for their entrance, when his United Hatzalah communications device ale

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Exclusive- Devo Klein-First Responder Acts Quickly To Save a Life In East Jerusalem

Exclusive- Devo Klein-First Responder Acts Quickly To Save a Life In East Jerusalem Mohammed Ahbeed is a Muslim volunteer EMT living in East Jerusalem who joined United Hatzalah last year. He has quickly proven himself as an active and dedicated volunteer

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Israel: Urban Aeronautics To Develop Emergency Response Flying Vehicle With Hatzolah Air

Flying vehicles have been called the future of urban transportation in the smart mobility sector, with companies like Amazon, Tesla, and Boeing creating some of the most cutting-edge flying car technologies — from delivery drones to all-electric passenger aircraft.

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Israel Seen Exclusive - Rescue In A Yarkon Hotel

Israel Seen Exclusive – Rescue In A Yarkon Hotel A few weeks ago on Tuesday, at 12:30 p.m. United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center received a phone call regarding a serious injury that had just taken place in a Tel-Aviv hotel on HaYarkon Str

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Israel-U.S Creates Mental Health Service For U.S. First Responders and Health Workers

Israel-U.S Creates Mental Health Service For U.S. First Responders and Health Workers Israel-U.S. Collaboration Creates International Mental Health Service For First Responders and Health Workers Suffering From Covid-19 Related Stress Injuries. Anesthesio

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IsraelSeen Exclusive - Two Women Save Their Neighbor's Life After He Collapsed In Front Of His Children

IsraelSeen Exclusive – Two Women Save Their Neighbor’s Life After He Collapsed In Front Of His Children Last Tuesday, Talia Brauer and Tina Berkowitz, two United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs from the town of Ein Hod, which is located in a remote area o

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Israel Seen Exclusive - Were You The Man Who Saved My Son's Life?

Israel Seen Exclusive – Were You The Man Who Saved My Son’s Life? United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Levi Yitzchak Ben David, originally from Union City, New Jersey,  lives with his family in Tzefat. He works as a caterer and is often seen around the

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Kalanit Taub - Speak Up. You May Just Save A Life

Kalanit Taub – Speak Up. You May Just Save A Life United Hatzalah, Israel’s largest all-volunteer emergency medical service organization, always responds as quickly as possible to any call for medical assistance. The various EMTs are spread across

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Israel Seen Exclusive - The Art of Running And Saving A Life

Israel Seen Exclusive – The Art of Running And Saving A Life   The pair of United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs, Yuval Shlafman and Amir Gellis know each other quite well as they meet up early Friday mornings on Hatzuk Beach, as part of their Tel Avi

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Israel Seen - When No One Else Is There To Help - Be The Person That Helps

Israel Seen – When No One Else Is There To Help – Be The Person That Helps YitzchakHoffman immigrated from Belgium to Israel. He moved to the city of Ashdod and began his family. 20 years ago, Yitzchak trained to become one of the first volunt

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IsraelSeen Exclusive - A Bloody Rescue In The Time of Corona

IsraelSeen Exclusive – A Bloody Rescue In The Time of Corona Given the current pandemic and resultant public health crisis. With COVID-19 cases rising dramatically in Israel and abroad, United Hatzalah dispatchers have been handling a significant sp

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Deena Hornstein - Treating A Groom In Distress

Deena Hornstein – Treating A Groom In Distress On a recent Saturday night, Ariel Yonatan was alerted to an accident on the highway between Safed (Tzefat) and Meron. A high impact collision occurred between two private vehicles that caused the airbag

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IsraelSeen Exclusive - You saved my life, You Are My Angels

IsraelSeen Exclusive – You saved my life, You Are My Angels Shai Romano and Moti Tzulshan are volunteer EMTs with United Hatzalah in Netanya. On Sunday they went to visit Elirav Zarchia, a patient at Laniado hospital whom they treated a week previou

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Israel Seen Exclusive - Treating Each Person As Their Own World

Israel Seen Exclusive – Treating Each Person As Their Own World United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Betzalel Sabag lives in Rehovot with his family. Betzalel works in an office in Ramat Gan near the Aluf Sadeh interchange. One recent Sunday morning, traff

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Israel Seen Exclusive - Leaving My Kids To Save Another

Israel Seen Exclusive – Leaving My Kids To Save Another One evening, a babysitter was looking after some children at their home in Bnei Brak. One little boy (who was severely allergic to milk products) was jealous of his siblings happily munching on

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Israel Seen Exclusive - One Active Friday

Israel Seen Exclusive – One Active Friday Ram Oz is a 2-meter-tall combat veteran and extreme-sport enthusiast from Hod Hasharon who volunteers as a United Hatzalah EMT and drives one of the organization’s ambucycles. Recently this past Friday nig

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Israel Seen Exclusive - Dramatic Rescue Saves Infant Locked in A Hot Car

Israel Seen Exclusive – Dramatic Rescue Saves Infant Locked in A Hot Car Last Thursday a dramatic car rescue took place after an infant was accidentally locked inside a hot car. The mother of the child wrote the following after the lifesaving rescue

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How A 1970s TV Show About LA Paramedics Inspired An EMS Transformation Across The Country: LAist

L.A. has been a pioneer in EMS care for decades — on TV and in real life.