Over the years, I've written about a lot of Israeli innovations, but among those I missed early on,

United Hatsala of Israel, the country's largest nonprofit, independent, all-volunteer, completely free

emergency medical service. The idea began about 30 years ago with a single devastating moment.

A child was choking.

It took 21 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.

By then, it was too late.

The child did not survive.

That tragedy became the founding impulse for United Hatsala,

revolutionizing emergency medical care in Israel by placing life-saving skills and equipment directly

in the hands of volunteer medics, so help arrives fast and often before an ambulance arrives.

Learn about United Hatsala's lifesaving work at Israelrescue.org forward slash call me back.

And stay tuned to hear from a hero medic who responded to the terrible attacks of October 7.

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The question for conservatives who have doubtful about the war is more, have we actually achieved the strategic goals that we set out to achieve?

Or in order to maintain the stability we have now, we're going to end up having to make a deal with the Iranians where they can say, we weaponized the strait successfully and we outlasted the great Satan.

And by the way, not only has the regime not changed, but in fact, quite the reverse.

It's been radicalized.

There are people who have said this is like a strategic defeat that marks the end of the American Empire.

I don't buy any of that at the moment, but I do have profound questions about if Trump isn't

going to use ground troops, if we're not going to escalate, if we are not going to push harder

for regime change, then if we end up making a deal and walking away, is anyone going to look

back and say, well, this was a big success?

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