Jonathan Spitzer is zigzagging between the Chabad mission - "I am with a full matzah ambulance" - to the Corona fight: "I feel I am doing something important for the people - and there is tremendous satisfaction"

• Jonathan Spitzer // Photo by Mandy Cornett

Yonatan Spitzer holds two hats at the same time - he is a senior medic and ambulance driver in Jerusalem, and at the same time is a full-time Chabad, operating the Chabad House in Moshav Mata, where he lives, and the Chabad House of Magen David Adom "Chabad for Rescue Forces In Israel. "

Just before Pesach and at the height of the Corona crisis, he is burdened with his two duties at the same time. "You caught me with an ambulance full of matzah and crew kits," he laughs. "Because of the Corona, teams will remain on alert on the night of the Seder, and we are organizing a holiday-ready kit for them.

"The routine is a little crazy," he admits. "It's personally stressful to go to the patients, and how much you defend, you still don't know what's going to happen. There is pressure, but you also feel that you are doing something that saves the people of Israel and there is tremendous satisfaction in that. I took a woman who shivered and cried all the time, 90% having a corona, but I reassured her and told her she would go through with it.

"To me, this is part of the mission, which is both physical and spiritual. Blessed be the name I have been privileged to be with the people who assist the people of Israel during the most difficult times." Being a Chabad during this time, not easy at all. ”My rabbi, Rabbi Friedberg, passed away last week. There are well-known names, "he says sadly, but adds:" Chabadese are optimistic. There is no reason for Christ not to come now, after what has happened. After this blow, he must come. "