Main Campaign Event 2017

Alex Michigan, a senior EMT, just celebrated his 80th birthday and marked 50 years of volunteering with Magen David Adom. He is also MDA’s oldest Medicycle driver. “My wife and daughter pressure me to get off the motorcycle, but I can’t; I’m addicted,” said Michigan. “To this day, I also take turns in a Mobile…

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…

Magen David Adom, Israel’s national paramedic organization, is demonstrating its cutting-edge ambulance dispatch system to American EMTs at the Hatzalah Expo, a gathering of Jewish volunteer EMS organizations, on October 30 and 31 at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Hatzalah South Florida currently uses a version of the software that has been tailored to their…

Magen David Adom’s International Unit, established in 2007, includes hundreds of doctors and paramedics from a number of countries who voluntarily come to Israel to receive emergency service training. This enables them to return to Israel in times of need to volunteer for MDA. For the first time since the pandemic began, MDA held the…

Medic in serious condition after arriving to treat victims of attack near Kiryat Arba; Palestinian man also hurt; gunman rammed by a security official, shot dead by an off-duty soldier. A Palestinian terrorist opened fire near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on Saturday night, killing an Israeli man and wounding four other people,…