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ISRAELIS know all too well the need for first aid—and the difficulties of providing it. When Eli Beer was four, in 1978, he saw the carnage after a hijacked bus exploded. In 2001 he was knocked to the ground by a secondary bomb intended to kill first-aiders rushing to the scene of a suicide blast.
Conventional ambulances called to such scenes have plenty of fancy equipment, but they start from a central location and often struggle to squeeze through traffic jams. So they often arrive too late: the most gravely injured often die in minutes.
Mr Beer has designed something better. His charity, United Hatzalah, co-ordinates a group of 1,700 volunteers scattered around Israel. All are trained in basic first aid. And each has a GPS-enabled smartphone revealing exactly where he or she is.
Anyone who sees an emergency can call a central number (1221 in Israel). A smartphone app (a small programme installed on a modern mobile phone) instantly alerts the nearest first aider, who may be only a block away, standing behind a deli counter or dozing in a meeting. He stops whatever he is doing, races to the scene and tries to stop the victim’s bleeding or start his heart (most volunteers are equipped with defibrillators). They mostly have motorbikes too, to nip through the traffic. When the ambulance arrives, the volunteer goes back to his day job.

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Scattered 散在(산재)해 있는. saviours 구급요원, 구원자.
ISRAELIS 이스라엘 사람들. carnage 대학살. intend 의도하다.
suicide 자살. blast 폭파, 폭풍. Conventional 재래식의, 전통적인.
scenes 사고 현장. equipment 장비. central location 중앙 본부.
squeeze 壓搾(압착)하다, 헤집고 나가다. gravely 무겁게.
the most gravely injured 重傷者(중상자)들. charity 자선단체.
co-ordinates 조정하다. scattered 散在(산재)하는.
revealing 알려 주는. install 장착하다. instantly 즉시.
alerts 警報(경보)를 발하다. deli=delicatessen 調製食品(조제식품) 가게.
doze 졸다. bleeding 출혈. defibrillators 세동제거기.
nip 날쌔게 가다, 꼬집다.