Dr. Eyal Hayman, an emergency medicine specialist at Shaare Zedek, married and father of five children, was seriously injured this week in the helicopter crash in Rafah while on his way to save lives.
IDF rescue helicopter squadrons, Medical Corps teams in the Technological and Logistics Directorate, and Unit 669 have carried out dozens of evacuations of injured soldiers from areas of operations in the Gaza Strip over the past week.
Various IDF medical evacuation units working on the ground and in the air save the lives of soldiers in the field.
'Since the start of the fighting, Unit 669 has evacuated approximately 200 injured, in 45 different operations.
The helicopter, which belongs to the Air Force's Unit 669, flew the cruise ship passenger to the hospital after she suffered a heart attack.
Rescue teams save father, son, and four other hikers from overflowing stream in Judean Desert.
First-person footage shows new recruits to elite search and rescue unit complete training on land, sea and air.
Elite IDF rescuers sadly unable to save 40-year-old man, who fell off a cliff while hiking in the Judean desert.
It took IDF soldiers in a helicopter to rescue two youths who got stuck in a flash flood near the Dead Sea.
The IDF manages to land a helicopter in snowbound Shomron community and bring a woman in labor to hosptial.
