Jerusalem – Former Mossad Chief Joins ‘United (Ichud) Hatzalah’

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    (R-L) Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah, Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan, Zeev Kashash Israel Director.Jerusalem – A decorated Israeli war veteran who served as the head of the Mossad has taken on a new position: that of an active board member of Israel’s largest emergency medical services organization.

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    Meir Dagan, who retired from the Israeli army as a major general after 32 years of service and who served as a counterterrorism adviser and a national security adviser before taking the helm as Director-General at the Mossad under Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert and Binyamin Netanyahu, spent considerable time researching United Hatzalah before joining forces with the volunteer emergency medical corps.

    “It took him two to three months to do his due diligence,” Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah of Israel and president of the United States based Friends of United Hatzalah, told VIN News. “He saw our volunteers in action in his home town of Tel Aviv and he loved that we have frum and non-frum people working together saving lives. He loves that we do our work for free, as volunteers, and he very much wanted to be involved.”

    Major General Dagan, who had a life saving liver transplant in 2012, joins a list of high profile United Hatzalah board members that includes both Alan Dershowitz and Jay Schottenstein. As an active board member, he hopes to use his connections worldwide to help develop relationships with other countries who have expressed an interest in copying United Hatzalah’s model and also hopes to encourage other former Mossad members to volunteer.

    According to Beer, when Major General Dagan first expressed an interest in finding out more about United Hatzalah, he was given the option of visiting with emergency medical services teams in various parts of the country.

    “I thought he might want to see our volunteers in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem but he said he wanted to come to Bnei Brak,” said Beer. “He loves frum people and he was so impressed with what he saw: Chasidim, Litvaks and non frum volunteers, everyone working hand in hand taking calls on Shabbos with no questions asked. There are two Satmars, two Bobovs and two Vishnitzes, but everyone is working together. He told me it was a big kiddush Hashem.”

    Major General Dagan officially joined with United Hatzalah at a ceremony held yesterday in Jerusalem where he dedicated an ambucycle that was donated in his honor.

    United Hatzalah, which currently has almost 2300 volunteers throughout Israel and offers a response time of three minutes or less anywhere in the country, hopes that with the addition of even more volunteers and more ambucycles it will be able to reach its goal of a 90 second response time throughout Israel.


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    sane
    sane
    10 years ago

    He was one the greatest Mossad directors.