A 95-year-old man choked Sunday evening, while eating a sufganiya, the jelly doughnut associated with Hanukkah, in Bnei Brak.
Channel 10 Television reports the Magen David Adom emergency service saved his life, extracting a piece of dough from his windpipe. When he regained consciousness, he was taken to Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. MDA recommended keeping an eye on the very young and the vary old when serving sufganiyot, taking care to cut the doughnuts into small pieces to avoid choking.