Ambulances

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

A suspect is in custody and an investigation is ongoing following the incident, which occurred near a Lao New Year celebration, Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office spokesperson Rebecca Melancon said.

|ByREUTERS
EMERGENCY SERVICES after a car rammed into a crowd in Louisiana, USA, injuring several.
Charred remains of ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish community organisation, which were set on fire in an incident that the police say is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, in northwest London, Britain, March 23, 2026.

Three suspects in UK Hatzola ambulance arson arrested, charged for attack

Two British nationals, 20-year-old Hamza Iqbal and 19-year-old Rehan Khan, and one unnamed 17-year-old British-Pakistani dual citizen were charged with an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
UN PEACEKEEPERS (UNIFIL) seen in southern Lebanon, as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, on November 6, 2025.

Hezbollah uses ambulances, paramedic uniforms, as disguise for terrorist activity, IDF says

The terrorists, the military claimed, systematically used ambulances to transfer weapons across the country, in order to launch attacks against Israel and IDF soldiers.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Charred remains of ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish community organisation, which were set on fire in an incident that the police say is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, in northwest London, Britain, March 23, 2026.

London police arrest two men over antisemitic arson of ambulances belonging to Jewish volunteers

The two were arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life, with police officers carrying out searches at their residences, London's Metropolitan Police stated.

|ByJAMES GENN, REUTERS

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

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

APRIL 6, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

MARCH 18, 2021BySARAH BEN-NUN
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.

JANUARY 21, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(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.

JANUARY 4, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

AUGUST 15, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
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.

JULY 6, 2020ByZACHARY KEYSER
MDA uses ambulance bus to evacuate nine from southern Israel nursing home

Magen David Adom builds ambulance bus with potential for 13 patients

The first-of-its-kind ambulance bus can also transport 14 emergency medical staff.

MAY 15, 2020ByCELIA JEAN
Magen David Adom staff and IDF officers standing in front of the newly built ambulance-bus

Ambulance Union calls for urgent assistance amid coronavirus crisis

Ambulances are operated by independent and non-profit organizations, and so the damage so far to all the companies within the union is estimated at NIS 5.6 million.

APRIL 30, 2020ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
A United Hatzalah ambulance in northern Israel(United Hatzalah)

Coming up with revolutionary ideas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019ByELI BEER
MDA ambulance at the scene of a stabbing in Afula