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'I don’t care about optics': Inside United Hatzalah’s Jerusalem daycare disaster response

United Hatzalah responders treated children, managed a possible toxic threat, and supported parents during a crisis at a Jerusalem daycare.

Israel Police take a woman in for questioning.
Hatzolah Air flies Israeli hero Gefen Bitton home after Sydney terror attack.

Hatzolah Air flies Israeli hero Gefen Bitton home after Sydney terror attack

Fourteen-year-old Chaya is pictured with members of United Hatzalah's Psychotrauma & Crisis unit while in the hospital receiving treatment for injuries sustained during Sunday’s terrorist attack on a Hannukkah event in Bondi Beach, Australia.

Fourteen-year-old girl shielded, saved two children during Bondi attack

NEW YORK CITY Jewish leaders speak at a menorah lighting event at Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan on Dec.14, 2025.

New York leaders light menorah after Bondi Bay attack, call for Jewish solidarity and pride


Tzitzit saved the life of a Jerusalem bus crash victim

Shalom Klein was standing at a bus stop in Jerusalem when an Egged bus careened out of control and smashed into it. He was unharmed, and is now sharing his story.

 Scene from the site in Jerusalem where a bus crashed into a bus stop.

Hatzalah sues another Jewish ambulance service in Florida for trademark infringement

Chevra Hatzalah, the New York-based Jewish ambulance service, claims in the lawsuit that Hatzalah Palm Beach sought to promote false association between both groups.

Ambulance

Grapevine: Introducing Sheleg

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Judy Siegel with Sheleg

Elad terror attack: First-person account from an EMS team head

As long as this is in writing, it’s much longer in reality. And it’s exhausting, it’s abrasive, it’s something I’ve never dealt with in my life.

 UNITED HATZALAH EMTs from Elad respond to the fatal terror attack in the city on May 5.

Sharon Slater: The Israeli woman helping Hatzalah treat trauma

Gratitude and perspective guide Slater’s days as she glides through life spreading healing and light.

 Sharon Slater

United Hatzalah: The first medical team on the Ukrainian border

“The whole place knows about the orange medical team that has come from Israel to help.”

 A young Ukrainian refugee suffering from a slight case of hypothermia receives blankets at the border crossing in Moldova

Petah Tikva man chokes on falafel, saved by EMTs passing by

When United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Neria Cohen left a Petah Tikvah store, he heard a commotion – along with cries for help – coming from the shop next door, where a man was choking on falafel.

Three falafel and salad-filled pitas.

Storm Carmel: Man in critical condition after being hit by tree

Winds, slippery condition cause havoc on roads • Adverse weather to continue today

 A tree was knocked down on a man due to Carmel storm winds.

60-year-old man saved by EMT’s after choking on Sufganiyah

A man was saved by EMTs after choking on a Sufganiyah, a jelly doughnut traditionally eaten on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.

 Sufganiyah (illustrative)

Hatzalah v MDA: Both organizations claim victory following court case

The case was a lawsuit brought by Magen David Adom (MDA) against United Hatzalah over claims that it had defamed the national first responder organization.

An orthodox Jewish volunteer of the Emergency Medical Service organization, United Hatzalah, seen near an ambulance in Jerusalem AND Two paramedics, a Jew wearing a prayer shawl and a Muslim using a prayer mat, pray beside each other near a Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance in Beersheba, southern Isr