Just after 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening in the city of Afula, a woman in her 60's collapsed on Arlozorov Street in Afula. A crowd had gathered around the woman and people were unsure what to do.
16-year-old Shaked Masas had just finished a private English class and was walking on the street when he saw the commotion. “I had just finished my class and was headed to the bus stop. When I saw a group of people in a crowd and people were shouting for help. I rushed over and saw the collapsed woman. …
Just after 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, a man in his 60s suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on Mishmar HaYarden Street in Afula. His worried family members called emergency services for help.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Tomer Ben Yehuda was just leaving his home nearby in Afula and heading for his office in Tel Aviv when he received the urgent alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center regarding the medical emergency. Tomer turned his car around and rushed over to the given address arriving as the first medical responder at the scene. He grabbed his medical kit and ran…
Just before 3:00 a.m. on Monday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shadi Shawar, who lives in the largely Muslim neighborhood of Beit Hanina and works as a manager in customer service in a supermarket, was just finishing his shift when he suddenly received an alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center. A Palestinian man who had collapsed outside of the village of Al-Ram had been brought to the Qalandiya checkpoint by his family who was requesting medical aid.
Shadi ran to his car and drove as fast as he could from his supermarket to the checkpoint. When he arrived…
Just before 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening, an elderly man who lives at home and has no family to care for him was brought a package of food by Orli Kadosh, the founder of a local community initiative “Adopt a Senior”. The man who suffers from a number of chronic illnesses was not used to receiving guests and did not get up to open the door. …
On Monday evening, on Reuven Gamzon Street in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem, a young man in his 20s, who is living with cancer was having difficulty breathing. His family called emergency services for help. United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center sent out the urgent alert to the closest responders in the area. While the family members were talking to the dispatchers on the phone the man started making gasping sounds and then stopped breathing. That is when United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yehuda Arieli rushed through the door.
Arieli had been at home just down the street with his…
On Sunday night just before midnight, a couple from the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood in Jerusalem was about to go to sleep when the husband suddenly started hearing his wife’s breathing become erratic. He tried to get her to sit up but she was unresponsive and then stopped breathing altogether.
The worried husband, who was partially visually impaired called his children to help and told them to call for emergency services. The couple’s eldest son came into the room, helped his father place his mother on the ground, and began compressions while talking with the dispatcher.
United Hatzalah volunteers from the…
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 around the clock. A few years ago, her episodes were so intense and so frequent that I decided I needed to train to become an EMT so that I could know how to treat her. …
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 taking place in his vicinity.
A few streets over from where Itzhak lives, a pregnant woman was eating pasta when she began to exhibit signs of anaphylaxis. …
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 as a cab driver, happened to be nearby when he received the alert from headquarters.
The devoted volunteer sped to the given address with his rescue kit at the ready. Fayyad was relieved to find his colleague Dr. Zeiler at the scene, already treating the…
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 Immanuel Fleischer, was at his home on the nearby Strauss Street in Jerusalem when he received the alert to the emergency. He grabbed his vest and medical equipment and ran downstairs to his motorcycle. …
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