The Official HaChovesh Website

  HaChovesh Har Nof is a volunteer, non-profit Emergency Medical Service (EMS) serving the residents of the Har Nof community of Jerusalem. Being under the auspicious of the EMS system of  Magen David Adom, we are the only private fully certified ambulance core in Israel.           

We provide emergency medical care ranging from first responders to transport with emergency medical technicians and medical equipment of the highest standard. Our team includes - well-trained dispatchers, paramedics, doctors and EMTs. While providing emergency services to our community, in the quickest response time, our services go beyond that of medical emergencies, with searching for missing persons and crisis support part of activities.

Being an EMS of the neighborhood of Har Nof, we are on call and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,  365 days a year. HaChovesh's response is doubly important as the backup service for the whole of Jerusalem; when any mass casualty incident occurs or there is additional need outside the neighborhood, our ambulances are called out by central dispatch and speed to the call manned by highly qualified volunteer crews.

We hope that this site will allow you to familiarize yourself with who we are and what we do. HaChovesh's goal is also to provide you with important medical information enabling you to save lives. 

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