THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — When Tali Zarek was 38 weeks pregnant her water broke in the middle of the night. Knowing the nearest hospital was a 30-minute drive away, she already had a bag packed. Tali called her doula. “If you can talk on the phone and the contractions are not regular, you’re not in active labor,” claimed the doula.
Within minutes, Tali’s contractions increased rapidly. Believing she and her husband, Danny, still had time to drive to the hospital, they started their journey. As luck would have it, an unexpected roadblock had been set up by the police on the highway from Modiin to Tel Aviv.
Danny, a volunteer EMT with Magen David Adom, knew they would never make it to the hospital in time. He pulled off at the nearest exit and, with his wife’s screams in the background, called the MDA emergency hotline.
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