HOD January ONLINE Lodge Meeting + Speaker from United Hatzalah
When: 21 Jan 2021 7:00 PM CST
Where: Zoom
EVENT DETAILS:
This event is being hosted by Lodge Carmel in Atlanta.
Lodge Galil brethren, potential or uninitiated new members, spouses and guests/friends will be participating for the Speaker version that starts at 7 pm CST. Please note start time. Afterwards, Lodge Galil will break off for a business meeting.
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FYI: In Houston we have Hatzalah of Houston, which is NOT part of United Hatzalah, of which Eli Beer is the Founder & President. Both do the same type of work and are great organizations.
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JHV Dec 31,2020 edition - Cover page:
Come Hell or High Water: Hatzalah of Houston adds flood rescue vehicle to fleet
email Info@HoustonHatzalah.org or visit HoustonHatzalah.org
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Below was copied from Lodge Carmel:
You are cordially invited to our upcoming Open Lodge Meeting on Thursday January 21st. We are honored to have our guests Eli Beer and Gavy Friedson, leaders of United Hatzalah. NOTE - our time is set for 8:00 pm EST so as to allow other lodges in different time zones to join us.
Topic: COVID and Hatzalah’s daily help to Israeli and Arab citizen's pandemic lives
HOD accoss the globe has a long history with Hatzalah, from donating Ambucycles and and Ambutractor, as well as defibrillators and other necessary life-saving equipment). We look forward to hosting our guests and brethren wherever they make their abodes. This will be an engaging talk!
Here are Bios for our guest speakers
Director of International Emergency Management and Global Ambassador
Gavriel Friedson, has been saving lives since the age of fifteen. Over the course of sixteen years on the job, Friedson has distinguished himself through more than 10,000 emergency calls, ranging from acute medical crises to multiple casualties and catastrophic events. He has been first medic on the scene at a number of terrorist attacks during his years as a first responder. Having spent most of his life volunteering with Israel’s rescue agencies, he returned to the United States in 2017 to help expand United Rescue’s operations for international cooperation, responsible for helping to identify additional locations and emergency programs. Gavriel Friedson served in the elite Nahal Infantry Brigade and later in the Spokesperson’s Unit of the IDF. He holds a BA in communications from IDC and a master’s degree in Public Health specializing in Emergency and Disaster Management from Tel Aviv University.
Eli Beer is a social entrepreneur and the President and Founder of United Hatzalah of Israel.
After witnessing a bus bombing in Jerusalem as he was walking home from school at the age of six, Eli was inspired by this traumatic experience to pursue a career that would allow him to save lives. Eli became a certified EMT at 15 and began volunteering on an ambulance in order to follow his life’s mission. What he found, though, was that when someone needed fast medical attention, unfortunately, the ambulance was unable to arrive in time due to traffic, congestion, and the distance from which the ambulance was dispatched.
Eli sought out to fix this widespread and urgent problem. Although just a teenager, Beer gathered a group of like-minded EMTs with a passion for saving lives to listen to police scanners and rush to the scene when medical help was needed in their neighborhood. The initiative eventually became Hatzalah (meaning rescue in Hebrew). In 2006 Eli changed the name of the organization to United Hatzalah to represent the partnership of Jewish, Muslim, Druze and Christian volunteers from all religious spectrums working together in order to save lives.
United Hatzalah has become so successful, as it has been at the forefront of medical innovation. Its fleet of vehicles, including the Ambucycle, a motorcycle that has all the medical equipment of an ambulance aside from a stretcher, allows the EMT to reach the patient on average of 90 seconds in Jerusalem, and 3 minutes across Israel. In 2006, Beer invented “Moskowitz Life Compass,” which is the most advanced location technology, able to locate the five closest EMS responders within 3 seconds of the emergency.
In twenty-five years, the organization has grown to more than 6,000 volunteers who unite together to save lives, regardless of race or religion. This communal EMS network treats over 300,000 people per year, in Israel, as they waited for ambulances and medical attention.
Eli’s vision is to bring this life saving model across the world. In 2015, Beer expanded internationally with the establishment of branches in South America and other countries, including “United Rescue” in Jersey City, USA, where the response time was reduced to just two minutes and thirty-five seconds.
In addition to his work at United Hatzalah, Eli is also President of Misada Capital, a U.S. hedge fund focused on publicly traded American restaurant chains.
For his tireless work, Eli has received various recognitions and awards. This includes being named as Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Israel by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010, receiving the Israel President Prize by President Shimon Peres for innovation and volunteering in 2011, becoming a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012 selected by Queen Rania of Jordan, and being awarded the Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize for Peace in the Middle East in 2013.
When Eli is not travelling around the world fundraising for United Hatzalah, he lives in Jerusalem, Israel, with his wife, Gitty, and five children, some of who are also EMT volunteers.
