Eli Beer | |
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| Born | September 13, 1973 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Founder of United Hatzalah |
Eli Beer (born September 13, 1973 in Israel) is the founder of United Hatzalah of Israel, and President of the U.S.-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah. United Hatzalah of Israel is an independent, non-profit, fully-volunteer emergency medical services organization that provides fast and free emergency medical first response throughout Israel.
After witnessing the bombing of the #12 bus on June 2, 1978, he was struck by the chaos of the incident and the dearth of emergency rescue resources. [1] This traumatic experience inspired him to volunteer on an ambulance at the age of 15, while attending school and working in his family's bookstore and real estate business. Beer was seriously ill with Covid-19 and was twice placed in a coma. [2]
Beer began to work with Hatzalah Jerusalem in 1992. With him as fundraiser and operational coordinator the organization grew and changed its name to Hatzalah Israel, reflecting its nationwide scope. Hatzalah Israel acted as an umbrella organization, incorporating many Hatzalah chapters that had been established throughout the country.
In 2002, following a terror attack in the Beit Yisroel [3] neighborhood of Jerusalem where first response was slowed by the narrow roadways and congestion created by the panic in the neighborhood, a volunteer from the organization came up with the idea of having first responders arrive with a full complement of medical equipment on motorcycles [4] in order to cut through traffic and arrive at the scenes of medical emergencies faster. This gave birth to the 'ambucycle' a term coined by the organization to fit the newly created ambulance-motorcycle. Inside each of these vehicles is a full complement of medical equipment carried by a regular ambulance with the exception of a backboard, stair-chair, and bed.
Following the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Beer unified numerous smaller Hatzalah organizations from around the country and changed the name of the organization to United Hatzalah to represent the newly unified organization divided into branches and the partnership of Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian volunteers from all religious spectrums working together in order to save lives.
United Hatzalah established its reputation as an EMS organization by being at the forefront of medical innovation. It was the first EMS to introduce the Ambucycle, which allowed its volunteer first responders to reach the patient on average of 3 minutes across Israel, 8 to 15 minutes ahead of the first ambulance. In 2008, United Hatzalah launched Israel's first GPS-based dispatch system, which was able to locate and dispatch the five closest EMS responders within 3 seconds of the emergency.
The organization has grown to include more than 6,000 volunteer medical first responders including EMTs, paramedics, and doctors, who responded to more than 540,000 medical emergencies [5] in 2020. All services are provided free of charge to all people regardless of race, nationality, or religion.
Beer's vision is to bring United Hatzalah's life-saving model to other communities across the world. In 2015, he expanded internationally with the establishment of branches in South America, [6] and other countries, [7] including "United Rescue [8] " in Jersey City, N.J. in the United States, where the response time was reduced to just two minutes and thirty-five seconds as a result.
During his voluntary career as an EMT, Beer has been a medical responder at the scenes of the Ben Yehuda Street bombings, the Versailles Wedding Hall disaster, the Second Lebanon War in the north, and Operation Cast Lead in the south as well as dozens of other major terror attacks and mass casualty incidents.
During the Israel-Hamas war, Beer played a pivotal role in providing critical humanitarian assistance and medical care to those affected by the conflict. Setting up United Hatzalah field hospital and dispatch, Beer helped send over 1,500 volunteer EMTs to the Gaza periphery to treat both civilian and military personnel wounded in the Hamas terror attacks. [9] Beer helped mobilize tens of thousands of donors worldwide to raise funds for critical medical supplies, such supplies were depleted due to the massive humanitarian response United Hatzalah provided to wounded people in Israel. Beer met with U. S. President Joe Biden on his visit to Israel, to show support for the organization, the first responder community, and the nation of Israel during its time of peril. [10]
During a donors conference by the Republican Jewish Coalitions’ Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas on 28 October 2023 Beer disseminated the story of an Israeli baby being placed in an oven and burned to death, but this was unable to be verified. [11]
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