Saving lives in Jersey City, with quite a bit of thanks to Israel
If you have a heart attack in Manhattan, it takes about 7½ minutes for first responders to arrive on the scene. If it happens in Jersey City, you need only wait 2½ minutes. The Jersey system, says Steven Fulop, the city's mayor, is based on an EMS system United Hatzalah pioneered in Israel.
United Hatzalah founder Eli Beer with the first graduating class of volunteer first-responders in Jersey City, New Jersey. Photo by Yadin Goldman
