Perhaps the term “United Hatzolah” in Arabic will become a familiar phrase in the chareidi community, or at the very least, the new Arabic branch of the rescue organization may serve as a symbol of dual existence.
It may sound bizarre but according to an exclusive Chareidim report, a philanthropist aligned with the Israeli left-wing donated a sizable sum of money, funds earmarked to launch the new Arabic branch of the organization. The American donor was clear, and the funds were specifically for this purpose.
The official launching ceremony will be held on Thursday night, October 15th, in Jerusalem’s YMCA (King David Street), with some 30 members of the new unit expected to participate. Most of the new members have been involved in pre-hospital emergency medicine on one level or another, and the new team even includes three physicians.
The new volunteers have received their first-response equipment, the same as Jewish volunteers nationwide, with one difference, their bags have the United Hatzolah written in Arabic as well.
The new reality perhaps gives a significant boost to U. Hatzolah in its ongoing [growing] dispute with Magen David Adom, with the latter, Israel’s primary emergency medical service provider, preferring to leave most EMS calls in the eastern capital to the Red Crescent.
This new reality places U. Hatzolah in the eastern capital, a place that is all but off-limits to MDA ambulances as a result of realities on the ground, a situation that has been created by MDA’s de-factor abandonment of the predominately Arab areas of the eastern capital.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Will they be using their ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons between East and West Jerusalem!!??!!
I think this is a very dumb idea. It will expose the Jews to the Muslims like never before. Muslims use Red Crescent ambulances to transport terrrorists and their materiel. This will only make things more dangerous for the Jews.
I am waiting for some “believer” to start screaming that there was no Hatzolah during Mohammed’s time.
Sounds like someone wants to “diss” the Israeli medical establishment AND the Palestinian medical establishment. It’s a brilliant idea politically.
It’s also a sign that in the long run Hareidim can work together with Muslims and Christians better than the Hilonim.
Re #2 – Hello Flatbush Bubby.
Intransigence, intolerance, ignorance and hate will do far more to undermine us than would any shared ambulance service.
I suppose, Flatbush Bubby, that you don’t trust that Israeli security would properly screen members. Israeli Arabs work at Israeli airports, on Israeli merchant ships and in all sorts of positions that I suppose would just drive you to distraction. Calm down and play with your grandchildren – get a job – see a therapist – do something to find a way to relax. The end is not near.
That’s how it used to be in the days before Zionist Israel. The Arab Shabbos goy in my grandmother’s housing complex spoke Yiddish fluently. Before entering a Jewish home he’d say, “Baleboste, bahalt di vine.” During the Zionist riots, when the lechiniks and other thugs went searching for Arabs to kill, he came running, scared to death. My grandfather and his neighbors dressed him up as a Jew and sat him down in shul, shukling over a sefer. When the murderers stormed into the shul, they were fooled. Even I remember an Arab shabbos goy being invited into our home with no fear. They knew that the chareidim are against Zionism and had no tainos against us. Only when the chareidim started acting like Mizrachists, making the Medina first a bedieved and then a lechatchila, did the problems begin. That’s what we have to thank for for the kosel bus attack – the first direct attack on frum Jews.
#6 Why dont you tell your pack of fairy tales to my grand father who was as charedi as they get and was killed by an Arab mob in Chevron attacks long before any of the shtusim you write here.
They way you speak about Yidden in your post leads me to believe that you are N.K. If you have that much hatred move to Iran with the rest of them!!!!!
YonasonW, you are far too arrogant! Of course they have to be suspect. Have you noticed they come into Yiddish areas and blow themselves up or are you too much of a peacenik to see the light from the trees? Gevalt you have to be really nisht mit alamin to see this is a cause for concern!
Where can I get that vest to wear on calls in NYC?
As a medic in United Hatzalah I would like to point out that all steps were taken with close consultation and advice of our Gedolim and lehavdil security experts who have given this project their support. The Gedolim were happy to have United Hatzalah field non-jewish workers who already work in hospitals, clinics and ambulances to help minimize unnecesasary chillul shabbos and yom tov. The security experts pointed out that United Hatzalah is not adding any further layer of risk because as noted they already are working in these and related fields. The already have been turning up in peoples homes as medics with other ambulance services, handymen and even doctors. In Israel today the bus driver, doctor and even police officer is likely to be an Arab. Our security comes from proper hishtadlus as per the advise of the gedolim and bitachon in Hashem.