Eleven Family Members Hospitalized After Suspected Food Poisoning

United Hatzalah medical teams were dispatched to residences in Beit Shemesh and Modi'in Illit after receiving distress calls. In Beit Shemesh, responders treated six family members, consisting of a 33-year-old man and five children between the ages of one and eleven. Simultaneously, in Modi'in Illit, paramedics treated five other children from the same family, aged four to twelve.

Paramedics Meir Kalmarsky, Aharon Heimlich, and Yitzik Fuchs reported that all the affected individuals began feeling unwell after attending the same family gathering a few hours earlier. After receiving initial medical treatment at the scenes, some of the patients were evacuated by United Hatzalah ambulances to hospitals, where they are reported to be in stable condition.

While initial assessments point to food poisoning from the meal served at the gathering, the exact cause of the illness remains under investigation. The causal link between the food and the symptoms has not yet been officially confirmed by a laboratory.