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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.40,0:00:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an ambucycle.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.37,0:00:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the fastest way\Nto reach any medical emergency.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.41,0:00:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has everything an ambulance\Nhas except for a bed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.91,0:00:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the defibrillator.\NYou see the equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.67,0:00:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all saw the tragedy\Nthat happened in Boston.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.84,0:00:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was looking at these pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.92,0:00:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it brought me back many years to my past
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.91,0:00:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.48,0:00:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in a small\Nneighborhood in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.55,0:00:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was six years old,\NI was walking back from school
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.64,0:00:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a Friday afternoon\Nwith my older brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.38,0:00:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were passing by a bus stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.63,0:00:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We saw a bus blow up in front of our eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.68,0:00:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bus was on fire, and many people\Nwere hurt and killed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.72,0:00:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remembered an old man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.65,0:00:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yelling to us and crying\Nto help us get him up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.12,0:00:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just needed someone helping him.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.58,0:01:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were so scared and we just ran away.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.12,0:01:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growing up, I decided I wanted\Nto become a doctor and save lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.91,0:01:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe that was because of what I saw\Nwhen I was a child.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.91,0:01:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was 15, I took an EMT course,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.20,0:01:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went to volunteer on an ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.26,0:01:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For two years, I volunteered\Non an ambulance in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.68,0:01:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I helped many people,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.53,0:01:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but whenever someone really needed help,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.44,0:01:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never got there in time.\NWe never got there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.79,0:01:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The traffic is so bad. The\Ndistance, and everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.30,0:01:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never got there when\Nsomebody really needed us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.12,0:01:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, we received a call\Nabout a seven-year-old child
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.81,0:01:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choking from a hot dog.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.39,0:01:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Traffic was horrific,\Nand we were coming from
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.56,0:01:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other side of town\Nin the north part of Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.17,0:01:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we got there, 20 minutes later,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.46,0:01:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we started CPR on the kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.98,0:01:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A doctor comes in from a block away,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.46,0:01:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop us, checks the kid,\Nand tells us to stop CPR.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.66,0:01:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That second he declared this child dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.41,0:01:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment, I understood
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.41,0:02:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this child died for nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.28,0:02:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this doctor, who lived\None block away from there,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.84,0:02:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have come 20 minutes earlier,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.53,0:02:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not have to wait\Nuntil that siren he heard before
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.55,0:02:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming from the ambulance,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.84,0:02:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he would have heard\Nabout it way before,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.77,0:02:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would have saved this child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.51,0:02:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could have run from a block away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.64,0:02:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He could have saved this child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.32,0:02:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to myself, there\Nmust be a better way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.01,0:02:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together with 15 of my friends --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.96,0:02:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were all EMTs —
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.73,0:02:28.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we decided, let's protect\Nour neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.80,0:02:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so when something like that happens again,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.82,0:02:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be there running to the scene\Na lot before the ambulance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.24,0:02:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went over to the manager\Nof the ambulance company
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.21,0:02:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I told him, "Please,\Nwhenever you have a call
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.57,0:02:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming into our neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.23,0:02:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have 15 great guys who are willing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.14,0:02:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop everything they're\Ndoing and run and save lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.83,0:02:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just alert us by beeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.26,0:02:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll buy these beepers,\Njust tell your dispatch
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.60,0:02:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to send us the beeper,\Nand we will run and save lives."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.51,0:03:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he was laughing. I was 17 years old.\NI was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.48,0:03:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said to me — I remember\Nthis like yesterday —
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.87,0:03:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was a great guy, but he said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.23,0:03:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Kid, go to school, or go\Nopen a falafel stand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.66,0:03:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not really interested\Nin these kinds of new adventures.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.66,0:03:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not interested in your help."\NAnd he threw me out of the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.28,0:03:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't need your help," he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.94,0:03:24.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a very stubborn kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.52,0:03:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you see now, I'm walking\Naround like crazy, meshugenah.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.94,0:03:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.91,0:03:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I decided to use the Israeli\Nvery famous technique
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.96,0:03:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've probably all heard of, chutzpah.\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.62,0:03:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next day, I went\Nand I bought two police scanners,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.30,0:03:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said, "The hell\Nwith you, if you don't want
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.91,0:03:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give me information, I'll get\Nthe information myself."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.86,0:03:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we did turns, who's going\Nto listen to the radio scanners.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.13,0:03:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next day, while I was listening\Nto the scanners,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.90,0:03:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard about a call coming\Nin of a 70-year-old man
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.21,0:04:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hurt by a car only one block away from me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.82,0:04:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the main street of my neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.52,0:04:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran there by foot. I had\Nno medical equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.22,0:04:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got there, the 70-year-old man
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.17,0:04:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was lying on the floor, blood\Nwas gushing out of his neck.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.08,0:04:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was on Coumadin.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.30,0:04:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew I had to stop his bleeding\Nor else he would die.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.29,0:04:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took off my yarmulke,\Nbecause I had no medical equipment,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.23,0:04:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with a lot of pressure,\NI stopped his bleeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.68,0:04:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was bleeding from his neck.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.20,0:04:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the ambulance arrived\N15 minutes later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.66,0:04:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them over a patient who was alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.24,0:04:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.22,0:04:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I went to visit him two days later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.39,0:04:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he gave me a hug and was crying
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.72,0:04:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thanking me for saving his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.74,0:04:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that moment, when I realized\Nthis is the first person
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.76,0:04:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ever saved in my life after two years\Nvolunteering in an ambulance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.07,0:04:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew this is my life's mission.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.77,0:05:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So today, 22 years later,\Nwe have United Hatzalah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.93,0:05:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.32,0:05:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hatzalah" means "rescue,"\Nfor all of you who don't know Hebrew.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.39,0:05:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I forgot I'm not in Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.34,0:05:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have thousands of volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.28,0:05:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are passionate about saving lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.20,0:05:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're spread all around,\Nso whenever a call comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.03,0:05:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just stop everything\Nand go and run and save a life.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.43,0:05:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our average response time today
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.99,0:05:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went down to less\Nthan three minutes in Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.70,0:05:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.35,0:05:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about heart attacks,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.89,0:05:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about car accidents,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.53,0:05:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God forbid bomb attacks,\Nshootings, whatever it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.40,0:05:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a woman 3 o'clock in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.34,0:05:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling in her home and needs\Nsomeone to help her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.74,0:05:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three minutes, we'll have\Na guy with his pajamas
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.11,0:05:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,running to her house\Nand helping her get up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.76,0:05:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reasons why we're so successful\Nare because of three things.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.83,0:05:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thousands of passionate volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.65,0:05:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will leave everything they do
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.37,0:06:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and run to help people\Nthey don't even know.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.28,0:06:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not there to replace ambulances.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.62,0:06:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're just there
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.23,0:06:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get the gap between the ambulance\Ncall until they arrive.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.28,0:06:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we save people that otherwise\Nwould not be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.17,0:06:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second reason\Nis because of our technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.52,0:06:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Israelis are good in technology.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.55,0:06:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every one of us has on his phone,\Nno matter what kind of phone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.78,0:06:28.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a GPS technology done by NowForce,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.86,0:06:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and whenever a call comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.30,0:06:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the closest five volunteers get the call,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.48,0:06:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they actually get there really quick,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.38,0:06:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and navigated by a traffic navigator\Nto get there and not waste time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.10,0:06:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a great technology\Nwe use all over the country
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.30,0:06:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reduce the response time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.89,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the third thing are these ambucycles.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.03,0:06:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These ambucycles\Nare an ambulance on two wheels.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.34,0:06:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't transfer people,\Nbut we stabilize them,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.65,0:06:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we save their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.89,0:06:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never get stuck in traffic.\NThey could even go on a sidewalk.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.05,0:06:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never, literally,\Nget stuck in traffic.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.42,0:06:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we get there so fast.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.22,0:07:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years after I started\Nthis organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.71,0:07:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a Jewish community,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.45,0:07:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two Muslims from east\NJerusalem called me up.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.25,0:07:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They ask me to meet. They\Nwanted to meet with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.95,0:07:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muhammad Asli and Murad Alyan.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.44,0:07:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Muhammad told me his personal story,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.42,0:07:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how his father, 55 years\Nold, collapsed at home,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.28,0:07:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a cardiac arrest,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.53,0:07:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it took over an hour\Nfor an ambulance arrive,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.95,0:07:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he saw his father die\Nin front of his eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.21,0:07:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he asked me, "Please start\Nthis in east Jerusalem."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.01,0:07:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said to myself, I saw so\Nmuch tragedy, so much hate,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.83,0:07:32.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not about saving Jews.\NIt's not about saving Muslims.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.12,0:07:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about saving Christians.\NIt's about saving people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.69,0:07:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went ahead, full force --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.10,0:07:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause) —
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.69,0:07:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I started United\NHatzalah in east Jerusalem,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.36,0:07:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's why the names United
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.18,0:07:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Hatzalah match so well.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.26,0:07:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started hand in hand\Nsaving Jews and Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.11,0:07:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arabs were saving Jews.\NJews were saving Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.38,0:07:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something special happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.38,0:08:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arabs and Jews, they don't\Nalways get along together,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.04,0:08:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but here in this situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.35,0:08:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the communities, literally,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.14,0:08:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's an unbelievable\Nsituation that happened,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.31,0:08:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the diversities, all of a sudden\Nthey had a common interest:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.90,0:08:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's save lives together.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.35,0:08:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Settlers were saving Arabs\Nand Arabs were saving settlers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.13,0:08:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an unbelievable\Nconcept that could work
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.25,0:08:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only when you have such a great cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.01,0:08:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these are all volunteers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.88,0:08:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one is getting money.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all doing it\Nfor the purpose of saving lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.88,0:08:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When my own father\Ncollapsed a few years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.16,0:08:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a cardiac arrest,\None of the first volunteers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.57,0:08:31.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to arrive to save my father
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.33,0:08:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one of these Muslim\Nvolunteers from east Jerusalem
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.93,0:08:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was in the first\Ncourse to join Hatzalah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.47,0:08:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he saved my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.55,0:08:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you imagine\Nhow I felt in that moment?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.06,0:08:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started this organization,\NI was 17 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.16,0:08:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never imagined that one day\NI'd be speaking at TEDMED.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.58,0:08:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never even knew what TEDMED was then.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.46,0:08:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think it existed,\Nbut I never imagined,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.60,0:08:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never imagined that it's going\Nto go all around,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.01,0:08:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to spread around,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.09,0:09:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this last year we started\Nin Panama and Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.16,0:09:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I need is a partner\Nwho is a little meshugenah like me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.54,0:09:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passionate about saving\Nlives, and willing to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.93,0:09:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm actually starting\Nit in India very soon
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.44,0:09:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a friend who I met\Nin Harvard just a while back.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.09,0:09:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hatzalah actually started\Nin Brooklyn by a Hasidic Jew
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.96,0:09:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years before us in Williamsburg,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.24,0:09:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now it's all over the Jewish\Ncommunity in New York,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.96,0:09:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even Australia and Mexico\Nand many other Jewish communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.22,0:09:28.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it could spread everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.81,0:09:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very easy to adopt.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.37,0:09:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You even saw these volunteers in New York
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.64,0:09:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saving lives in the World Trade Center.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.76,0:09:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year alone, we treated\Nin Israel 207,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.31,0:09:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forty-two thousand of them were\Nlife-threatening situations.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.03,0:09:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we made a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.21,0:09:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess you could call this\Na lifesaving flash mob,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.95,0:09:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it works.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.38,0:09:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I look all around here,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.82,0:09:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see lots of people\Nwho would go an extra mile,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.22,0:10:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run an extra mile to save other people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.94,0:10:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who they are,\Nno matter what religion,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.67,0:10:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who, where they come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.59,0:10:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all want to be heroes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.37,0:10:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just need a good idea, motivation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.76,0:10:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lots of chutzpah,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.60,0:10:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we could save millions of people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.76,0:10:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that otherwise would not be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.93,0:10:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.62,0:10:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)