Ambulances

Grapevine: Getting from point A to B

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of Israel's 76th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024
People stand near a monster truck after a driver lost control of the vehicle and plowed into spectators, killing people and injuring others, in Popayan, Cauca province, Colombia, May 3, 2026.

At least two killed, 37 injured after monster truck crashes into crowd in Popayan, Colombia

BP Cherry Point Refinery, near Seattle, Washington; illustrative.

At least four injured in incident at BP refinery near Seattle

EMERGENCY SERVICES after a car rammed into a crowd in Louisiana, USA, injuring several.

Man arrested after vehicle slams into Louisiana crowd, injuring at least 15, sheriff's office says


MDA ambulances switch sirens to sound less like rocket sirens

Bin said in a statement after making the decision earlier this week that "these days, we must show maximum sensitivity to the concerns of the Israeli public."

An ambulance driving in the central Israeli city of Elad, April 5, 2020

Muslim doctor lightly injured protecting Jewish man from lynch

Awad, who was lightly injured himself from the conflict, evacuated the Jewish man from Muslim rioters. He put his own body in between the Jewish man and the Muslim rioters.

United Hatzalah Mobile Intensive Care Unit team - illustration

Israeli ambulance driver saves three lives in one day

Being the owner of his own private ambulance with all equipment required for medical emergencies, Merizan was able to arrive at the locations of the patients to save their lives quickly.

United Hatzalah Mobile Intensive Care Unit team - illustration

Muslim EMT and Jewish volunteers save disabled woman's life together

The efficient treatment of these three Hatzalah volunteers managed to resuscitate her.

A UNITED HATZALAH ambucycle is seen with Jerusalem in the background

'Exciting': Ambulance driver helps deliver baby in unexpected house call

"That was such an exciting moment," Schachde said.

Ambulance driver Khaled Schachde with the newborn baby girl he helped deliver, March 18, 2021.

Jewish, Muslim EMTs perform lifesaving CPR in tandem

The two volunteers, EMTs Keren Ezouz and Imad Zoabi, responded to the scene after the mother of the victim alerted United Hatzalah that her son collapsed for unknown reasons.

(L-R) United Hatzalah EMT volunteers Imad Zoabi, Keren Ezouz and Adi Kanias

Magen David Adom in 2020: A year in numbers

MDA collected 3,456,450 coronavirus tests in 2020 and had vaccinated 60,000 people as of Sunday.

Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing seen outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, September 6, 2020

Woman gives birth on Highway 4 near Ashkelon

Two EMTs arrived to find out that the woman was already in the advanced stages of labor within her car, and would have to give birth then and there.

Heavy traffic jam on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv due to construction work, on June 11, 2020

Brooklyn’s Orthodox women’s EMT service gets right to operate

New York State’s Regional Emergency Medical Services Council granted an ambulance permit Thursday to Ezras Nashim

An ambulance car carries an Italian patient infected with coronavirus arrives at the Helios hospital in Leipzig, Germany, March 25, 2020, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues

MDA uses ambulance bus to evacuate nine from southern Israel nursing home

The transferal of the nursing home residents would have otherwise needed nine ambulances to perform said task.

MDA uses ambulance bus to evacuate nine from southern Israel nursing home