A 29-year-old man suddenly collapsed Sunday evening in a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Ramat Eshkol neighborhood. Rescue teams rushed to the scene and carried out CPR until his heart started beating again.
Mendi Grunwald, a medic with the Team Hatzalah motorcycle unit, said he was directed into the synagogue, where he found the man unconscious, with no pulse and no breathing after worshippers said he had collapsed suddenly. Grunwald said that together with MDA paramedics and other medics, they performed advanced resuscitation, including chest compressions, ventilation, and an electric shock.
He added that, “by God’s mercy,” the man’s heart resumed beating and he was taken by an MDA intensive care ambulance to the trauma unit at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in the city for further treatment.
United Hatzalah medics Ze’ev Klein, Akiva Angel and Moshe Prans, together with volunteer paramedic Ari Odzer, said they also performed CPR and used a defibrillator shock. They said that after what they described as “a great miracle,” the man was evacuated to hospital in serious but stable condition.
