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Rabbi Yossi Friedman speaks to people gathering at a flower memorial by the Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, December 16, 2025, following Sunday's antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
April 29, 2026, 7:41 pm
Bondi Beach Hanukkah terror attack teaches valuable lessons to volunteer medics
Clinical lead of volunteer Jewish first responder charity urges communities to prepare themselves for disasters based on findings from attack, as it improved ability to respond
By Aidan Baron
Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, founder of the Psychotrauma and Crisis Unit of United Hatzalah. (Courtesy)
October 19, 2025, 6:34 pm
Miriam Miedzinski-Ballin, trailblazer who made mental health part of first aid, dies at 38
The Houston-born mother of five founded United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit, is remembered for her ‘immense merit’ and concern for others during emergencies
By Diana Bletter
A City Transformer CT1 vehicle with the United Hatzalah colors and logo. (Illustration - City Transformer)
October 17, 2021, 4:52 pm
Israeli ‘foldable’ electric cars to make debut as emergency response vehicles
City Transformer signs $22m deal to provide United Hatzalah with vehicles that can contract to just 1 meter wide for easy parking and maneuvering
By Ricky Ben-David
The director of the epidemics service, Dr Karina Glick, checking a patient vital signs monitor at a ward, while wearing protective clothing, during a press presentation of the hospitalization service for future patients with coronavirus at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital, on March 16, 2020, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)/
March 24, 2020, 11:51 pm
Health Ministry document reveals Israel has only 50 backup ventilators
Letter updates that 192 emergency breathing machines have been distributed, with nearly 20% of them already in use; doctors expect need to soar in coming weeks
By ToI Staff
Israeli firefighter wearing protective clothes disinfects the entrance of the emergency of Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem on March 22, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 23, 2020, 8:37 pm
Comptroller report: Israel’s healthcare system cannot cope with a pandemic
Officials in newly appointed comptroller’s office blast him for delayed publication, saying report was ready months ago, failure to name those at fault means criticism is toothless
By Jacob Magid
Gary Verstegen clears a sidewalk as a winter storm moves through Wisconsin on Monday, January 28, 2019, in Little Chute, Wisconsin. (William Glasheen/The Post-Crescent via AP)
January 30, 2019, 6:34 pm
Life-threatening deep freeze envelops American Midwest
Cities fear for their homeless as temperatures drop low enough to freeze skin in minutes; Chicago running idling, heated buses as temporary shelters
By BLAKE NICHOLSON
View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 6:44 pm
Disasters drilled on Jerusalem-Ben Gurion fast rail ahead of opening in 3 weeks
Israel Railways mounts exercises to extract ‘blaze victims’ from Israel’s longest tunnel, evacuate injured from underground platform
By Sue Surkes
Construction at the Jerusalem station of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train, December, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 26, 2018, 9:17 am
First responders warn of rescue concerns for Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express train
Experts call for opening of rail link to be delayed as lack of vehicles needed to reach inside tunnels, large numbers of passengers could hamper rescue efforts in major disaster
By ToI Staff
Mini-ambulances launched by the Magen David Adom emergency and rescue service to speed up response times in crowded or hard-to-reach locations, October 9, 2017. (Yehezkel Itkin via MDA)
October 10, 2017, 4:54 pm
Magen David Adom launches speedy mini-ambulances
Electric cars will help volunteer paramedics circumvent traffic, access narrow streets and maneuver through audiences at events
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 12, 2016, 3:09 pm
Magen David Adom app aims to streamline emergency response
My MDA can relay users’ location, medical info and send video from scene to dispatchers and first responders
By Luke Tress
A high-tech mannequin in one of the Medical Trauma Simulator's single casualty rooms. Trainees can perform operations on the mannequin's neck, and its pupils can dilate to simulate a brain injury. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
August 25, 2016, 12:29 pm
When a dummy screams for help, the IDF’s future medics rush in
The army’s high-tech Medical Trauma Simulator prepares troops in the most realistic way possible to treat casualties in the field
By Luke Tress
Magen David Adom paramedics in Jerusalem. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
July 22, 2016, 2:10 pm
Trauma and routine all in a day’s work for Jerusalem’s paramedics
Magen David Adom’s 15,000 personnel are called to do everything from advising schools to responding to bombings at home and abroad
By Luke Tress
Illustrative photo of cars being transported near the Erez Crossing into Gaza. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
February 1, 2016, 7:44 pm
2 Gazans indicted for entering Israel on forged medical papers
Palestinian pair, one of them a Hamas member, pay NIS 7,000 apiece for false papers, are nabbed by Shin Bet
By ToI Staff
A girl enters the home where Isralife paramedics set up a makeshift clinic in the yard outside on Thursday April 30, 2015. (Photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel.)
May 1, 2015, 12:07 am
In Nepal’s remote villages, a new challenge for aid workers
Among a patchwork of unnamed villages, Israeli volunteers set up clinics, bringing medical care to the country’s worst-hit areas
By Melanie Lidman
Damaged houses are seen from an Indian Army helicopter following an earthquake in the Nepalese area of Gorkha on April 28, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Sajjad Hussain)
April 30, 2015, 6:08 pm
Israel pledges to reconstruct an entire village in Nepal
Efforts to take ‘several months’; providing emergency aid is ‘the most effective kind of diplomacy,’ Liberman says
By Raphael Ahren
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