United Hatzalah (Medical Volunteers)

 United Hatzalah’s strength is in its 6,500 selfless volunteers. These include emergency medical technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and doctors who are on call 24/7/365 – even on Yom Kippur!

United Hatzalah volunteer medics take a 200 hour course and undergo 100 training calls to qualify as EMTs. After passing the exams, each medic receives a rescue bag and a phone that connects him to the LifeCompass System.

From that point forward, the medics are always on call. 

United Hatzalah (Rescue) Volunteers

 United Hatzalah, a non-profit medical response service founded by Eli Beer in 2006, provides free emergency treatment and ambulance transportation to anyone in Israel no matter who or where they are.

And “hatzalah”, Hebrew for “rescue”, is exactly what they do. United Hatzalah’s 6,200+ volunteers were dispatched to over 650,000 emergencies in 2021 alone! They help people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with response times often under 3 minutes and as fast as 90 seconds!