7-year-old Rafael Yotam fulfilled his dream of becoming a captain on a navy ship. About four years ago, Rafael Yotam Cohen, who has cancer, fulfilled a dream using an MDA Wish Ambulance – and flew in an MDA-Lahak emergency helicopter in the southern skies of the country. Recently, Rafael Yotam’s rare illness returned for the…

Last week, a man collapsed in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. MDA’s 101 emergency call center was immediately contacted and began the process of saving his life with the help of an emergency defibrillator stored on the side of a Mifal HaPais lottery booth. After emergency call center EMT, Yuval Kadishi, realized that the…

An Israeli insurance company is capitalizing on technology developed by Magen David Adom and Israeli tech startup MDGo that will automatically notify MDA when vehicles owned by the insurer’s clients are involved in accidents. The insurance company, Direct Insurance, and MDA both see the technology as a potential lifesaver, saving crucial minutes by instantly notifying…

Facebook users will now be able to sign up for real-time alerts at blood donation centres in their area and set up routine reminders to donate blood. Facebook Israel CEO Adi Soffer-Teeni visited Magen David Adom National Headquarters in Kiryat Ono on Monday as part of the launch of a new feature that will be…

International Blood Donor Day at MDA: How many blood units have been donated this year? Which city is at the top of the list? Monday marks the International Blood Donor Day in Israel and around the world, and according to Magen David Adom (MDA) blood services data, 271,305 blood units were donated since the last Blood…

JERUSALEM – The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed a couple of days earlier for a urinary tract infection. Instead of feeling better, she was getting worse. That’s when her worried family made an urgent call to Magen David Adom – Israel’s national emergency medical…