Muslim man saves neighbor's life just before Friday prayers

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 15 June 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

A 60-year-old man had suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on his living room floor. Worried family members had called emergency services for help.

Arriving to the scene within two minutes, Aliyan reportedly immediately began to perform CPR on the man, alongside another United Hatzalah volunteer, Yechiel Mayburg, who was also at the scene.

The team continued their efforts which included medications and defibrillator use, and after a few minutes and multiple shocks to the heart, the man's pulse came back and then disappeared again.

"After the third shock was administered, the man began to resist compressions, a sign that he was coming back to life," Aliyan recalled.

He noted that the success of the resuscitation effort was thanks to the combined efforts of all the people involved.

"We worked together as a team and that made a huge difference in saving this man's life. His pulse kept coming back and then fading again. This isn't all that unusual, but it takes...