Overview
- The 34-year-old collapsed during his wedding at an event hall in Kibbutz Hulda in Israel's Gezer Regional Council.
- United Hatzalah volunteer Ben Sinai, attending as a guest, led prolonged CPR and used the hall’s defibrillator until the groom regained a pulse.
- The patient was evacuated to Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot sedated and on a ventilator and was initially listed as serious but stable.
- Kaplan’s cardiac ICU director, Dr. Natalia Kaufman, said he has regained consciousness, is communicating, and is no longer in immediate danger, with continued close monitoring and work to determine the cause.
- Medics from Magen David Adom also responded at the scene, and a relative has said he has myotonic dystrophy and mentioned treatment for sepsis and possible pacemaker insertion, a claim not confirmed by the hospital.