By including a gift in your Will to Magen David Adom, you reflect your wider concerns for the future and for the cause in which you believe. Your gift will be used to save human life, ease human suffering and to provide emergency medical assistance when and where it is needed most. Your words CAN…
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…
Magen David Adom received a call that a woman obtained a shoulder injury. When the ambulance arrived, the crew discovered that Vivian dislocated her shoulder while trying to open the car door. “When we got there, Vivian was in a lot of pain,” said Eran Neve, a senior EMT. “Her son told me they were…
For the second year in a row, Magen David Adom stations in Israel’s Lachish region (northwestern Negev) participated in a competition to test their skills. Six stations from Ashkelon, Ashdod, Kiryat Malachi, Gam Yaven, Sderot, and Kiryat Gat, joined by four intensive care teams from the Negev, Ayalon, and Jerusalem areas sought to bring home…
Magen David Adom runs the national Human Milk Bank, and this week, broke a record! Magen David Adom broke a new record this week, with the Human Milk Bank supplied 30 liters of milk to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) across Israel. This amount is equal to six weeks nursing supply, and so will provide…
As we approach one of the most solemn days in the Israeli calendar – Holocaust Remembrance Day, we take the time to reflect. Magen David Adom youth volunteers flew to Poland to learn about the Holocaust. Just here. As I sit beneath the tall, bare trees, do I understand how the very obvious isn’t obvious…
The life of Victoria Leshiner, a Jewish woman living in Donetsk, Ukraine, was completely normal until about a month ago. When the war began, she started looking for a way out with her two children, a 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. Having lived in Israel some 20 years ago, she decided to immigrate to Israel…
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…
By Racheli Ikar, MDA Paramedic Kishinev, Moldova — My friends and I, EMTs and paramedics from Magen David Adom, have had the privilege of being on a special mission in Moldova. This mission will be spoken about for some time to come — rescuing refugees from within Ukraine, from Odessa and Mykolaiv, and bringing them…