Take a deep dive into Israel’s largest civilian disaster, the Meron Crowd Crush at the Lag Ba’omer festival.

Co-hosts Dovie Maisel and Elad Bachar are joined by United Hatzalah Deputy Medical Director Avi Marcus, who was in the thick of the emergency. Together, they discuss planning for the festival, where they were when the crush occurred, how they navigated the chaos to treat the dozens of patients, and dealing with the aftermath of the tragedy.

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United Hatzalah is Israel's largest volunteer emergency medical service that provides free, volunteer-based emergency response throughout Israel. With over 7,000+ volunteer EMTs, paramedics, and physicians from all backgrounds, faiths, and genders, United Hatzalah's unique response model allows our volunteers to reach any medical emergency in under 90 seconds! To date, we have treated over 6,000,000 patients country-wide!

Support our vital work and partner with us to save lives: https://israelrescue.org/moe-donate/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedHatzalahofIsrael

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitedhatzalahofisrael/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unitedhatzalah

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Website: https://www.israelrescue.org/

Media credits: United Hatzalah, Chaim Shapira, Creative Commons

In this episode of Masters of Emergency, co-hosts Dovie Maisel and Elad Bachar take a deep dive into a mass casualty incident that occurred at a major synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, where bleachers collapsed, sending hundreds of people falling to the ground.

Take a deep dive into two different major bus accidents with multiple patients and explore the differences between them.

In this episode of Masters of Emergency, co-hosts Dovie Maisel and Elad Bachar take you behind the scenes into the heart of the emergencies, describing what it was like for the first responders who arrived on the scene, triaging patients, and coordinating a massive response of ambulances to the emergency. The first MCI that they discuss is a serious accident that took place in the brand-new Carmel Tunnels underneath Haifa, and the second is another serious accident that took place on an open highway between the 402 bus line and a truck.

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United Hatzalah is Israel's largest volunteer emergency medical service, providing free, volunteer-based emergency response throughout Israel. With over 7,000+ volunteer EMTs, paramedics, and physicians from all backgrounds, faiths, and genders, United Hatzalah's unique response model allows our volunteers to reach any medical emergency in under 90 seconds! To date, we have treated over 6,000,000 patients country-wide!

Support our vital work and partner with us to save lives: https://israelrescue.org/moe-donate/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedHatzalahofIsrael

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitedhatzalahofisrael/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unitedhatzalah

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/united-hatzalah-of-israel/

X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/UnitedHatzalah

Website: https://www.israelrescue.org/

Media credits: United Hatzalah, Creative Commons