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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an ambucycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the fastest way to reach any medical emergency.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has everything an ambulance has except for a bed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the defibrillator. You see the equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all saw the tragedy that happened in Boston.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was looking at these pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it brought me back many years to my past
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in a small neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was six years old, I was walking back from school
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a Friday afternoon with my older brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were passing by a bus stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw a bus blow up in front of our eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.00,0:00:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bus was on fire, and many people were hurt and killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remembered an old man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yelling to us and crying to help us get him up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just needed someone helping him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were so scared and we just ran away.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing up, I decided I want to become a doctor and save lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe that was because of what I saw when I was a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 15, I took an EMT course,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went to volunteer on an ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For two years, I volunteered on an ambulance in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I helped many people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but whenever someone really needed help,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never got there in time. We never got there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The traffic is so bad. The distance, and everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never got there when somebody really needed us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, we received a call about a seven year old child
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choking from a hot dog.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Traffic was horrific, and we were coming from
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other side of town in the north part of Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we got there, 20 minutes later,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we started CPR on the kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A doctor comes in from a block away,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop us, checks the kid, and tells us to stop CPR.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That second he declared this child dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment, I understood
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this child died for nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this doctor, who lived one block away from there,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have come 20 minutes earlier,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.00,0:02:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not have to wait until that siren he heard before
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming from the ambulance,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he would have heard about it way before,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would have saved this child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could have ran from a block away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could have saved this child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to myself, there must be a better way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together with 15 of my friends
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.00,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— we were all EMTs —
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we decided, let's protect our neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when something like that happens again,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be there running to the scene a lot before the ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went over to the manager of the ambulance company
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I told him, "Please, whenever you have a call
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming into our neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.00,0:02:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have 15 great guys who are willing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop everything they're doing and run and save lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just alert us by beeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.00,0:02:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll buy these beepers, just tell your dispatch
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.00,0:02:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to send us the beeper, and we will run and save lives."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.00,0:03:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he was laughing. I was 17 years old. I was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said to me — I remember this like yesterday —
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was a great guy, but he said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.00,0:03:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Kid, go to school, go open a falafel stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.00,0:03:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not really interested in this kind of new adventures.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not interested in your help." And he threw me out of the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't need your help," he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a very stubborn kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you see now, I'm walking around like crazy, meshugenah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to use the Israeli very famous technique
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've probably all heard of, chutzpah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next day, I went and I bought two police scanners,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "The hell with you, if you don't want
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give me information, I'll get the information myself."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we did turns, who's going to listen to the radio scanners.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next day, while I was listening to the scanners,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard about a call coming in of a 70-year old man
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.00,0:04:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hurt by a car only one block away from me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the main street of my neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran there by foot. I had no medical equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got there, the 70-year old man
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was laying on the floor, blood was gushing out of his neck.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was on [inaud].
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew I have to stop his bleeding or else he will die.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.00,0:04:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took off my yarmulke, because I had no medical equipment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with a lot of pressure, I stopped his bleeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was bleeding from his neck.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the ambulance arrived 15 minutes later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them over a patient who was alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.00,0:04:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.00,0:04:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I went to visit him two days later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.00,0:04:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gave me a hug and was crying
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.00,0:04:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thanking me for saving his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment, when I realized this is the first person
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.00,0:04:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ever saved in my life after two years volunteering in an ambulance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.00,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew this is is my life's mission.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.00,0:05:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So today, 22 years later, we have United Hatzalah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.00,0:05:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.00,0:05:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hatzalah" means rescue, for all of you who don't know Hebrew.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.00,0:05:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I forgot I'm not in Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.00,0:05:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have thousands of volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.00,0:05:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are passionate about saving lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're spread all around, so whenever a call comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.00,0:05:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just stop everything to go and run and save a life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.00,0:05:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our average response time today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.00,0:05:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went down to less than three minutes in Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about heart attacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.00,0:05:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about car accidents,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.00,0:05:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God forbid, bomb attacks, shootings, whatever it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a woman three o'clock in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.00,0:05:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling in her home and needs someone to help her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.00,0:05:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three minutes, we'll have a guy with his pajamas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.00,0:05:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running to her house and helping her get up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.00,0:05:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why we're so successful are because of three things.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.00,0:05:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands of passionate volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:05:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will leave everything they do
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.00,0:06:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and run to help people they don't even know.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.00,0:06:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not there to replace ambulances.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.00,0:06:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're just there
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.00,0:06:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get the gap between the ambulance call until they arrive.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.00,0:06:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we save people that otherwise would not be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.00,0:06:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second reason are because of our technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Israelis are good in technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every one of us has on his phone, no matter what kind of phone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.00,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a GPS technology done by NowForce,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.00,0:06:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whenever a call comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.00,0:06:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the closest five volunteers get the call,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they actually get there really quick
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and navigated by a traffic navigator to get there and not waste time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.00,0:06:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a great technology we use all over the country
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reduce the response time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third thing are these ambucycles.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.00,0:06:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These ambucycles are an ambulance on two wheels.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.00,0:06:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't transfer people, but we stabilize them,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.00,0:06:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we save their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.00,0:06:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never get stuck in traffic. They could even go on a sidewalk.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.00,0:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never, literally, get stuck in traffic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.00,0:06:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we get there so fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years after I started this organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.00,0:07:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a Jewish community,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.00,0:07:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two Muslims from East Jerusalem call me up.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.00,0:07:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They ask me to meet. They wanted to meet with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad Asli and Morata Leon.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Muhammad told me his personal story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.00,0:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how is father, 55 years old, collapsed at home,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a cardiac arrest,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it took over an hour for an ambulance arrive,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he saw his father die in front of his eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.00,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he asked me, "Please start this in East Jerusalem."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to myself, I saw so my tragedy, so much hate,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.00,0:07:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not about saving Jews. It's not about saving Muslims.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about saving Christians. It's about saving people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went ahead, full force
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.00,0:07:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— (Applause) —
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.00,0:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started United Hatzalah in East Jerusalem,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.00,0:07:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why the named United
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.00,0:07:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Hatzalah match so well.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.00,0:07:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started hand in hand saving Jews and Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arabs were saving Jews. Jews were saving Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something special happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.00,0:08:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arabs and Jews, they don't always get along together,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.00,0:08:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here in this situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.00,0:08:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the communities, literally,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.00,0:08:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an unbelievable situation that happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.00,0:08:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the diversities, all of a sudden they had a common interest:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.00,0:08:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's save lives together.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.00,0:08:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Settlers were saving Arabs and Arabs were saving settlers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.00,0:08:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an unbelievable concept that could work
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.00,0:08:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only when you have such a great cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.00,0:08:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are all volunteers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one is getting money.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all doing it for the purpose of saving lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my own father collapsed a few years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.00,0:08:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a cardiac arrests, one of the first volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.00,0:08:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to arrive to save my father
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.00,0:08:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one of these Muslim volunteers from East Jerusalem
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.00,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was in the first course to join Hatzalah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he saved my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.00,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you imagine who I felt in that moment?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.00,0:08:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started this organization, I was 17 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never imagined that one day I'll be speaking at TEDMed.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never even knew what TEDMed is then.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.00,0:08:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think it existed, but I never imagined,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.00,0:08:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never imagined that it's going to go all around,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.00,0:08:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to spread around,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.00,0:09:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this last year we started in Panama and Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.00,0:09:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I need is a partner who is a little meshugenah like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.00,0:09:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passionate about saving lives, and willing to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm actually starting it in India very soon
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a friend who I met in Harvard just a while back.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.00,0:09:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hatzalah actually started in Brooklyn by a Hasidic Jew
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.00,0:09:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years before us in Williamsburg,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.00,0:09:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it's all over the Jewish community in New York,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.00,0:09:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even Australia and Mexico and many other Jewish communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.00,0:09:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it could spread everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.00,0:09:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very easy to adopt.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.00,0:09:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You even saw these volunteers in New York
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.00,0:09:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saving lives in the World Trade Center.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.00,0:09:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year alone, we treated in Israel 207,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.00,0:09:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,42,000 of them were life-threatening situations.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.00,0:09:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we made a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.00,0:09:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess you could call this a life-saving flash mob,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.00,0:09:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it works.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.00,0:09:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I look all around here,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.00,0:09:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see lots of people who would go an extra mile,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.00,0:10:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run an extra mile to save other people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who they are, no matter what religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who, where they come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.00,0:10:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all want to be heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.00,0:10:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just need a good idea, motivation,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.00,0:10:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lots of chutzpah,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.00,0:10:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we could save millions of people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.00,0:10:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that otherwise would not be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.00,0:10:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.00,0:10:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)