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A Chanukah miracle is revisted.
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Israeli killed, 4 hurt in West Bank terror shooting; medic shot while trying to help
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,…
A celebration of light from darkness in Sderot.
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,…
How Israeli AI can help 911 call centers.
Op-ed by Eli Bin.
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…
MDA team rescues people trapped under rubble in Turkey.
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…