Main Campaign Event 2017

The following opinion piece by MDA Director-General Eli Bin was published in South Florida’s SunSentinel onJanuary 12, 2023.  Every week there’s another story in the world media about someone who died because of a problem originating at a 911 call center. In Portland, ambulances are delayed before they’re dispatched while 911 operators go through a…

Chanukah, a holiday celebrating freedom, is especially meaningful in Sderot. In this southern Israeli city, more than 1,100 rockets were fired from Gaza in 2022. Last year, more than 4,300 rockets were fired into the small city. The men and women of Magen David Adom’s Sderot Station are constantly adjusting between routine and emergency calls,…

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…

The Jerusalem Post — Two construction workers were killed and one was seriously injured when scaffolding collapsed from a 12-story building in Givat Ze’ev near Jerusalem. All three were trapped under rubble and eventually pulled out by the Fire and Rescue Authority. MDA medics Eli Raymond and Moshe Blach said, “When we arrived there was a…

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…