The life of a baby born in a car and suffering from respiratory distress was saved thanks to IDF paramedics who were summoned to the scene.

• Elon Cohen, the ambulance driver and the new father in the alliance // Photo: Eliahu Galil

Military paramedics who gave birth to a baby next to a Lebanese border were returning to the baby's circumcision on Sunday.

Photo: Eliyahu Galil

"We feel a circle is closing," said Sergeant Ophir Danino, the medic who presided over the event. "In real time, we had to help the baby who was bleeding and had difficulty breathing. You could say we saved his life, and we brought him to the hospital in a condition that allowed him to continue his treatment, so it was exciting to see him in the alliance now."



Lieutenant Elon Cohen, the ambulance commander, also congratulated the baby on welcoming Cohanim after the Alliance. "We respond to citizens daily," Cohen said after the United States, "but a birth event is not an event we are used to. When I got the call for a moment, I didn't really understand what it was, because it's not the kind of call we are used to. While we have studied the subject in the paramedics course, these are topics that are less relevant to us as military medics. "

Baaye medics in the alliance // Photo: Eliahu Galil

While on the maternity trip, the paramedic memorized all the births and prepared a maternity kit.

"We went back to the exhausted base at five in the morning," Danino said, "but we wouldn't give it up. It was a shocking experience, but it's also a tremendous excitement, and there's no way I wouldn't want to be a father myself in the future."



And go back to Bar Mitzvah too?

"If we are invited - we would love to come, promise."