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JERUSALEM – More than 1,000 patrons from around the world
joined United Hatzalah, Israel’s largest emergency response
volunteer organization, to honor Chilean philanthropist
Leonardo Farkas recently at the Jerusalem Theater. Three
internationally renowned Jewish liturgists, Cantor Yitzchak
Meir Helfgot (Park East Synagogue, NY), Cantor Netanel
Hershtik (Hampton Synagogue, NY), and Cantor Shlomo Glick
(Jerusalem) performed for the crowd.
Farkas was honored for his long-time support of the
organization, particularly in Tzfat and Haifa where he has
underwritten equipment and operating costs of the Hatzalah
units in those regions. He is known internationally for his
philanthropy, including contributing $10,000 to each of the
33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010.
“I have had the pleasure of knowing Leonardo Farkas for many
years. His unwavering support to our volunteers and to the
people of Israel who are helped everyday because of that
support, is an example to us all,” said United Hatzalah
Founder and CEO Eli Beer.
Cantor Glick was recognized at the event for his work as a
United Hatzalah volunteer, where he serves as a medic in the
ambucycle unit, and goes on life-saving missions on an
ongoing basis. A short video showed Glick leaving in the
middle of a recording studio session to run to help a person
in need, and then returning to finish his session. The honor
was awarded to Glick by Prof. Avi Rivkind, head of the
Hadassah Medical Center’s Trauma Unit and Emergency
Medicine.
United Hatzalah is Israel’s first and largest
fully-volunteer emergency rapid response service. With a
fleet of over 250 ambucycles, United Hatzalah’s 2,300
volunteers respond to nearby emergencies from mobile-alerts
and are able to arrive first on site to administer urgent
care within minutes from the initial call of distress.
United Hatzalah is a fully non-profit organization that
relies solely on the generous gifts of supporters worldwide
as all emergency medical treatment and transportation is
administered by fully trained volunteers. For more
information please visit www.IsraelRescue.org
or watch United Hatzalah Founder and President Eli
Beer’s TED
talk.
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