United Hatzalah Founder Flies Home After Recovery From Covid-19

President and Founder of United Hatzalah, Eli Beer, was released from the hospital in Miami yesterday after making a dramatic recovery from Covid-19 and made his way to the airport to fly back to Israel.

He was accompanied by a parade of local community members from the Jewish community who held homemade signs wishing Eli well and praising G-d for his recovery.

Mayor of Bal Harbor Gabriel Groisman posted special wishes for Eli on his Twitter feed: “I’m so happy to have spoken to Eli Beer tonight, who is recovering nicely, from a serious fight with COVID-19, which he is now winning. He is upbeat, grateful, and looking forward to getting back home to his family in Israel soon!”

Beer contracted the virus close to six weeks ago while he was on a fundraising trip in Miami. He was hospitalized in Miami, and after his condition deteriorated, he was put on a ventilator in an induced coma. Yesterday he took left Florida for Israel on the private plane of Dr. Miriam Adelson.

Eli made his way to the airport in an ambulance accompanied by members of Hatzalah of South Florida who supervised the transport. They were met with a long parade of community members from across South Florida who came out to show their support for Eli and the lifesaving work he does. They traveled behind the ambulance in a procession and cheered him on until he embarked onto the plane.

Just before Eli boarded the plane, he thanked his well-wishers, saying, “Thank you for your support. For the past few weeks, I was fighting for my life, now I am returning to Israel and I hope to save more lives than ever.”

Beer landed in Israel Tuesday afternoon and met with his family and the heads of the organization whom he hadn’t seen for three months.

As soon as he landed, Beer said: “I am happy to be back in Israel among my immediate family and my extended family of 6,000 first response volunteers of United Hatzalah.”

Beer then proceeded to say the Shema on the tarmac before he boarded one of the organization’s ambulances and was met with an honor guard of some 150 first response vehicles from the organization outside of the airport.

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President and Founder of United Hatzalah, Eli Beer, was released from Hospital in Miami yesterday after making a dramatic recovery from Covid-19 and made his way to the airport to fly back to Israel.⁣ ⁣ He was accompanied by a parade of local community members from the Jewish community who held homemade signs wishing Eli well and praising G-d for his recovery.⁣ ⁣ Just before Eli boarded the plane, he thanked his well-wishers, saying, “Thank you for your support. For the past few weeks, I was fighting for my life, now I am returning to Israel and I hope to save more lives than ever.”

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VIDEO: Eli Beer arrives in Israel