A seven-month-old baby died Thursday night after apparently suffocating on a plastic bag inside his family’s home in Bnei Brak. Despite prolonged resuscitation efforts by emergency responders and hospital staff, doctors at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer were unable to save his life.

Emergency medical teams rushed to the scene after receiving reports that the infant had lost consciousness. Paramedics immediately began advanced life-saving measures, including prolonged CPR and the use of a defibrillator, before transporting the child to Sheba Medical Center while continuing resuscitation efforts. Shortly after arriving at the hospital, physicians were forced to pronounce the baby dead.

Menashe Goldis, a volunteer medic with United Hatzalah who was the first responder to arrive, described the desperate attempts to save the infant.

“Together with additional medics, we performed prolonged resuscitation efforts, including administering an electric shock. He was then evacuated to Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer while CPR continued, in critical condition. We were told at the scene that he lost consciousness after choking on a plastic bag.”

Hatzalah Chairman Usher Shlomovitz, Deputy Director Chaim Bergman, and Hatzalah volunteers Daniel Horberg and Shabsi Ortner also described the emergency response.

“When we arrived at the scene, we were handed a seven-month-old baby who was unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing after choking on a plastic bag. Together with Hatzalah and Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs, we performed advanced resuscitation efforts, including delivering an electric shock with Hatzalah’s defibrillator. He was transported while CPR continued for further treatment in the trauma room at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.”

ZAKA said its volunteers were dispatched to the scene following the tragedy and are assisting the grieving family. The organization is also working with its legal division to complete the procedures necessary for the release of the infant’s body.

ZAKA operations officer Yechiel Goldman and motorcycle unit volunteer Yehuda Mor said, “ZAKA’s emergency dispatch center sent us to this difficult incident a short time ago. At this time, we are accompanying the family during these heartbreaking moments and assisting, together with ZAKA’s legal division, with the process of releasing the body and providing any additional help that is needed.”