Eli Beer: ‘I hope my visit will deepen the connection’

The community is invited to Australian Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel to hear from Eli Beer – United Hatzalah of Israel’s founder and president – at evening events in Sydney on May 28 and Melbourne on May 31.

Beer’s visit will be especially significant, as less than six months earlier and within hours of the Bondi Chanukah terror attack, United Hatzalah – a volunteer-based rapid response emergency medical service in Israel with more than 8000 trained medics – decided to send a psychotrauma team immediately to Sydney to provide critical mental health first aid.

That team spent a week carrying out more than 650 interventions, supporting survivors and their families.

Beer will reflect on that at both talks and share insights about the life-saving work that United Hatzalah volunteers do on a daily basis, its community-driven model and the innovation that enables its medics to arrive at emergency scenes across Israel in under three minutes.

During his stay, he will meet Bondi terror attack first responders and people who were injured.