Young MDA 2017

Dana Khalili of Jerusalem, suddenly woke up one night with contractions. She roused her husband, Asher, and they began the drive to the hospital. “On the way to the hospital my water broke,” said Dana. So they stopped on the side of the road and called 101, MDA’s emergency hotline. Yossi Himmelfarb, the EMT who…

A cycling group of fit, active men over 60 regularly bike Israel’s most rugged trails. Recently, they were cycling in the deep desert canyons of Mitzpe Rimon, when suddenly one cyclist went down. “I’m literally alive today thanks to a hard lesson learned three years ago,” said Yaron Efrat, 70, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest…

Felix Lotan, a senior paramedic who oversees disaster response for Magen David Adom, is a member of Israel’s search and rescue team, which was dispatched to Turkey following that country’s earthquake Monday. Today, together with the IDF team, he rescued a 12-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman who had been under the rubble for nearly…

Terror attacks in Israel continue to escalate, occurring nearly daily. Last Saturday, five people were shot and wounded outside a convenience store near Hebron. One of them was one of our own. Ofer Ohana is a senior EMT with Magen David Adom who responded within minutes. While attempting to treat one of the victims, who…

Betty Kemp knows all about making sacrifices. In the 1990s, Kemp served three years in the United States Army and an additional two years in the U.S. Army Reserves. She was honorably discharged from the service as a captain. Since then, as a civilian, she has worked as a home healthcare provider, where sacrifice means…