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Hatzolah/Hatzalah ("rescue" or "relief" in (ヘブライ語:הצלה)) is a volunteer Emergency Medical Service (EMS) organization serving mostly Jewish communities around the world. Most local branches operate independently of each other, but use the common name. The Hebrew spelling of the name is always the same, but there are many variations in transliteration, such as Hatzolah, Hatzoloh, Hatzalah, and Hatzola. It is also often called Chevra Hatzolah, which loosely translates as "Company of Rescuers" or "Group of Rescuers." ==History== The original Hatzolah EMS was founded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA by Rabbi Hershel Weber in the late 1960s, to improve rapid emergency medical response in the community, and to mitigate cultural concerns of a Yiddish-speaking, religious Hasidic community. The idea spread to other Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in the New York City area, and eventually to other regions, countries, and continents. Hatzalah is believed to be the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States.〔 "Hatzalah is the only volunteer ambulance service licensed to serve the entire City of New York, and it is believed to be the largest volunteer ambulance service in the nation."〕〔The Edhi Foundation with more than 500 ambulances has held the Guinness record for world's "largest volunteer ambulance organization" since 1997. *〕 Chevra Hatzalah in New York has more than a thousand volunteer EMTs and Paramedics who answer more than 70,000 calls each year with private vehicles and a fleet of more than 90 ambulances.〔(Boro Park Hatzolah Volunteer Ambulance )〕 Hatzolah organizations now function in Israel, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Mexico City, Panama,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://uhpma.org/ )〕 Belgium, Switzerland, several provinces of Canada, Russia〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=235422 )〕 the United Kingdom, and at least five states in the US. In Israel, the largest Hatzalah organization is called Ichud Hatzalah ((ヘブライ語:איחוד הצלה)), Hebrew for, "United Hatzalah." Ichud was founded in the aftermath of Israel's Second Lebanon War in 2006 when its founders decided they would like to improve unified central rescue response. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hatzalah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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