Day 13: MDA Activity Summary for the Day


Magen David Adom friends filled the cinema at Westfield on Sunday November 20 to see a mouth-watering documentary about food from all over Israel. “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” portrayed a diverse, multi-cultural society which has adapted a huge variety of foods and food styles to its own lifestyle and taste. The evening commenced with…
ILTV — Itsik Goldfarb, head of the volunteer department for Magen David Adom, discusses MDA’s preparations, evacuations, and training for the massive wildfires in the Jerusalem Forest that destroyed some 6,200 acres between Sunday and Tuesday. More than 2,000 people were evacuated from their homes. Thankfully, casualties were minimal.
Chicago, August 10 — Scott Casty of Chicago, Illinois, was thrilled to learn the ambulance he sponsored for Magen David Adom, Israel’s paramedic and Red Cross service, was instrumental in bringing a new life into the world when it was used to rush medics to the scene of an unexpected home birth in northern Israel. But…
Arutz Sheva — During a routine ambulance shift in Tel Aviv, 15-year-old MDA youth volunteer Ido Edelheit noticed a bus loaded with dozens of children and teenagers that was stopped in the middle of the intersection [on a street in Tel Aviv] and realized that the driver was in medical distress. Thanks to Ido’s alertness and…
In the past year, a special unit of MDA has been set up to trace and locate more than 100 relatives with whom a connection had been lost during the Holocaust Alongside the life-saving routine, and now in the wake of the national battle with the Corona virus, MDA also operates a tracing unit for…
Over 230 supporters of Australian Friends Magen David Adom friends once again filled the cinema at Westfield on Wednesday 21 November for the Annual MDA Movie Night. Attendees viewed ‘The Mossad, Imperfect Spies’ which provides a rare insight into Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, which has been almost completely sealed off to the media. For the…