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If they saw her fall, saw she could not get up without help, and did not try to help her based on “shomer negiyah,” they are ALL stupid fools who have learned NOTHING in Yeshivah. This is not negiyah. This is helping someone who has fallen. My husband’s ELDERLY aunt fell in the street in Boro Park about 40 years ago, and she was appalled that a whole bunch of yeshivah boys stood by and did nothing to help her. She sat there crying on the ground unable to get up by herself, until a non-Jewish neighbor saw her and helped her up. WHAT A CHILLUL HASHEM!!!!!! What is the difference if the girl was frum, not frum, or even Jewish. Someone falls and is unable to stand up, you help that person or at least GET HELP immediately. But when someone is injured, you have no chiyuv to find someone else to do what you can do yourself.

Lots of times Hatzalah is called for non-pikuah-nefesh injuries of both males and females. Do they not touch the female victims in need of help? Is THAT negiyah?