Eli Beer

Eli Beer is the father of five children, a social entrepreneur and president and founder of United Hatzalah of Israel, an independent, non-profit, fully volunteer EMS organization that provides fast and free emergency first response throughout Israel.

 UNITED HATZALAH conducts a first aid course. While our attention has understandably been focused on security and war-related concerns, we cannot forget that routine safety matters still demand our vigilance, the writer states.

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A DISPATCHER works in headquarters of United Hatzalah in Jerusalem.

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ELI BEER (left) and Mohamed Alabbar in Dubai.

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Mental health support is crucial for those recovering from ventilator care

To ease the patients out of their induced comas, whether those comas were coronavirus-related or not, there needs to be someone by their side who can guide them and help them through the process.

A patient is comforted by a doctor in hospital.

Recognizing the women at United Hatzalah

It is no secret that many women are more comfortable being treated by other women rather than by men. However, the ratio of women to men in the field of EMS is very small.

THE AMBULANCE WILL be operated by a crew of female volunteer EMTs and paramedics and will respond to any type of medical emergency.

Why doesn’t Israel have a 911 system?

Currently, there are 14 emergency numbers in Israel.

Israel Police vehicle (Illustrative)

Our responsibility to save the elderly of Israel

Retirement home (illustrative)

The pride of working in a falafel stand

When I broached the idea to one of the union heads at Magen David Adom he said to me: “I think you’re bored. Why don’t you go work at a falafel shop?”

Hummus and Falafel, Israel's favorite chickpea-based dishes

Why I can no longer be a skeptic of miracles

How being an emergency medical technician reshaped my perceptions of miracles

Yehuda and the United Hatzalah team

Coming up with revolutionary ideas

MDA ambulance at the scene of a stabbing in Afula

Children are dying because parents are on their phones

Authorities around the world are now explicitly warning people against using their smartphones whenever a child is near water.

A view of the swimming pool at The Norman

United Hatzalah: Our mission is to save lives

"At an early age, I realized what I wanted to do was to save lives. I wanted to be a doctor, but instead life took me in the direction of creating a volunteer EMS organization."

Yehuda and the United Hatzalah team

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Another attitude always permeated the psyche of these people as well. They all remembered that it is incredibly important to give to others who were not as lucky as they were.

PEOPLE VISIT the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in May.