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“I’ll treat you; you just hold on with all you’ve got.”

by Mackenzie Landi
"I'll treat you; you just hold on with all you've got."

Jerusalem paramedic Hadas Ehrlich urged wounded soldier not to give up – and he survived

Hadas Ehrlich joined MDA following in the footsteps of her father, a paramedic, and the two of them even made a joint speech at an event marking the first-ever Paramedics Day in Israel. In her role, she had dealt with the fallout of many terrorist attacks and had provided life-saving treatment to the wounded on a number of occasions. Being based in the Jerusalem District meant she was used to working under pressure, making the sudden switch from routine to emergency mode, and saving lives when the threat was still present on the scene. But none of this prepared her for the events of October 7 and the chaos that that day brought about.

That Saturday, Hadas was on a Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) shift in Jerusalem and was soon to finish when, at 6:30 AM, the sirens sounded – first in the South but soon afterward in Jerusalem too. This was an unusual occurrence in this area. Hadas received a phone call from the MDA dispatch center asking her to go down South with her MICU driver and EMT Eliel to help with the life-saving efforts. She boarded the MICU, an armored vehicle, and made her way to the scene of the disaster.

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