The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday voted to unite the emergency hotlines used by Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah.
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The move follows a plan introduced in 2018 and seeking to pool together the resources used by Israel's various medical emergency groups, so as to offer the public better rapid response.
MDA, Israel's largest emergency services organization opposed the move, as foes Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
The move will next move to a Knesset vote, the date of which has yet to be set.
United Hatzalah welcomed the committee's vote. Organization president Eli Beer thanked the forum for their "efforts to improve the emergency medical response system of the country."
He further urged Horowitz, "who works night and day for the improvement of public health, to continue the revolution he is making in the Health Ministry and in emergency medicine and to finish the legislative process that has already begun. This will result in many lives being saved in Israel."
