Hatzolah Darom

WAR IN ISRAEL

The 5784 Pogroms

We all know now that tousands of cold-blooded terrorists crashed into southern Israel this past Simchas Torah and viciously slaughtered infants, women and elderly Jews in numbers unknown to our people since the Holocaust and World War II. The terrorists murdered 1500, injured thousands, and kidnapped more than 200. Yet despite these atrocities and the dangers that persist, the volunteers of Hatzolah Darom continue to enter this place of evil and unimaginable cruelty

By preserving their lives, you enable them to save the lives and ease the suffering of thousands of displaced Jewish citizens

Stories About Our Volunteers

The shrieks of my four-year-old son shook the house, he had touched a red-hot iron and an ugly burn had already appeared. Just seconds after my call for help, a Hatzalah Darom paramedic was already in my home, quickly and professionally treating my son with the Burnshield you provided to the volunteers, easing his pain. He didn’t forget a candy for the child who immediately calmed down... How can we ever thank you?...

I will never forget that day. It was a Friday, and it was also our wedding anniversary. We decided to celebrate on a modest scale. We finished the preparations for Shabbat early, and sat down for a cup of coffee with a special cake that we’d bought especially in honor of the occasion. It was so nice, the house was ready for Shabbat, the pots on the Shabbat hotplate filled the air with a wonderful aroma, and we were enjoying our time together. And then there was a call on the mobile device. A terrible accident.

I was coming back from work, I was on my way home from Netanya. When I got to the Glilot Intersection, I saw an accident, and people were gesticulating at me to come urgently. I tried to hear on our mobile device and that of Magen David Adom – no report. I hadn’t yet had time to even fully apply the brakes to the ambulance when people opened the back doors and laid two unconscious people on the bed. I am alone. Two little children, aged about 3 and 4.5, critically injured and unconscious.

Thank G-d, I have been volunteering for 22 years. Very actively. About a year ago, I told someone who asked me that it seemed I had already seen all the terrible sights in all possible situations, and I didn’t think that I could see anything worse. I have experienced terrorist attacks, missiles, road and work accidents. Tragedies at home. Everything. But just a little while ago, I got the shock of my life.

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Dedication ceremony for the Volunteers’ House and launch point in Ashdod combining the intake of 26 volunteers for MDA – Hatzalah Darom in Ashdod

Yesterday (Monday) MDA – Hatzalah Darom volunteers and the Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel management dedicated the Volunteers’ House and launch point in Ashdod. This was in conjunction with the ceremony to mark the end of an emergency medicine paramedics’ course and the intake of 26 volunteers and people on-call for emergency medicine in southern Israel. The ceremony began with the Chairman of Hatzalah Darom, Rabbi Michoel Schwartz, and Director of the MDA Lachish region, Director of Area Haim Cardi, cutting the ribbon for the Volunteers’ House, and immediately after that Hatzalah’s rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Bunim Mintz, was honored with affixing the mezuzah. After a l’chaim, the volunteers sat down to a festive meal, during which representatives of MDA and Hatzalah Darom spoke.

Moderately wounded after falling from a significant height in Emunim

2 injured – moderately and lightly, in a road accident in Kiryat Gat

Woman burned in fire on Moshav Shafir

Infant suffered moderate burns in his home on Moshav Nehora

Five injured in accident at the Yesodot Intersection

Motorcyclist moderately injured close to Moshav Berurim

MADA-Hatzalah Darom volunteer saved a baby’s life in Ashdod this morning

On his way home from the synagogue this morning (Shabbat), passers-by called Yossi Tzemach, a MADA-Hatzalah Darom volunteer, to an apartment in Ashdod where a baby was choking from a foreign object which he had swallowed. Yossi Tzemach: When I reached the house, I saw a baby of around a year old who was semi-conscious and was having difficulty breathing normally. I immediately began life-saving actions and attempted to remove the foreign object from the baby’s throat. A Magen David Adom ambulance which arrived took the baby while beginning resuscitation attempts, to the city’s Assuta medical center. At the hospital, a foreign object was removed from the baby’s body, and he gained full consciousness and even began to breathe on his own.

Fell from a significant height in a production plant

MDA-Hatzalah Darom volunteers were summoned by the Magen David Adom call center to go to a man who had fallen from a significant height within the jurisdiction of the Lachish Regional Council. The MDA-Hatzalah Darom and Magen David Adom volunteers who arrived provided initial medical care to a man of around 40 who had fallen from a significant height and had suffered injuries to his head and limbs. A Magen David Adom intensive care ambulance evacuated the severely injured man to the Soroka Medical Center

Organization activities 24/7/365

The Hatzalah Darom volunteers are on call 24/7 and are perpetually saving lives. Various emergency calls are referred to the volunteers who are trained to help with a variety of incidents and who receive the best possible equipment from the organization. They are always prepared and spread throughout southern Israel, and answer every call within a few minutes.

Our EQUIPMENT

Hatzalah Darom does not skimp on its resources, and invests huge sums in purchasing the highest quality and best life-saving equipment on the market. The organization’s volunteers carry first aid bags full of expensive items of equipment which repeatedly justify their price tag after being used over and over again to save lives. The organization also invests in the community and distributes first aid cabinets to public places with many people, while providing community training for its emergency use during the first minutes until emergency forces arrive

L’ilui nishmas Aharon Haimov Hy”d,
who was murdered by despicable terrorists while trying to save lives

May his memory be for a blessing

say about us

We very much appreciate the work of the volunteers. They come to every call at the right moment and help save lives.

Mr. Alon DavidiHead of the municipality of Sderot

We greatly praise the partnership between Hatzolah Darom and MADA. The cooperation and professional knowledge of the organization's volunteers allow many lives to be saved.

General Ami IbgiThe manager of Lachish, Magen David Adom

We are very appreciative of Hatzolah Darom volunteers who spend nights saving lives. They answer quickly and with a sense of shlichut at all times. We hope not to need them!

Mr Yechiel LasryHead of Municipality of Ashdod