Nachum welcomed Eli Beer, Founder and President of United Hatzalah of Israel, to this morning’s JM in the AM to discuss Rabbi Nachman Seltzer’s fascinating new ArtScroll release “90 Seconds: The Epic Story of Eli Beer and United Hatzalah.”

From the ArtScroll website:

An Israeli child is born in a Ukrainian bomb shelter — and United Hatzalah brings her home under fire …

A United Hatzalah volunteer scales a 12-foot-wall – and is the first to respond to the tragedy of Meron …

Eli Beer, founder of United Hatzalah, slips and breaks his leg racing to an emergency — and manages to crawl to the choking child and save her life …

The amazing work of Israel’s United Hatzalah began, incredibly, when five-year-old Eli Beer witnessed a terror attack and dreamed of being the one to save the victim. While still a young teen, Eli set out to make that dream come true, creating an underground network of pioneering EMTs who were determined to bring their life-saving skills to victims in only 90 seconds, no matter where they were.

90 Seconds is the story of how a boy who failed in school created one of the the world’s largest all-volunteer emergency service. It’s the story of dramatic rescues, sometimes under fire. Of life-changing and life-saving innovations such as the “ambucycle.” Of bringing United Hatzalah’s lifesaving experience to Nepal, Haiti, and, most recently, Ukraine, and their heart-rending rescue work in the Surfside and Versailles wedding hall tragedies.

It is the story of how with determination, vision, self-sacrifice and compassion — and, of course, siyata D’Shmaya (the help of Heaven) — lives can be saved and dreams can come true.