In recent weeks, Israelis breathed a collective sign of relief as the country’s world-leading vaccination initiative brought Covid infection rates down and enabled the country to dramatically reduce pandemic restrictions. However, the return to some semblance of normal life didn’t last long. By ... Continue Reading
Rocket strikes on Israel kill five people in separate incidents Tuesday, including a teen, and injure dozens more
Israel’s conflict with terrorists in Gaza took a more ominous turn Tuesday when five people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl, in separate rocket strikes that left many others injured, three of them critically. Early in the day, two women were killed in Ashkelon when rockets separately ... Continue Reading
MDA Responds
Following the massive barrage of missiles at Israel in the last hour, a number of hits have been reported throughout the country. MDA teams are now treating casualties in various cities whose condition has been defined as mild. Missiles which struck Petah Tikva hit residential building mildly ... Continue Reading
Israel in chaos: Police arrest hundreds in Jewish-Arab violence across country
Riots spread across several cities throughout Israel with mixed Arab and Jewish populations. Some 374 people were arrested throughout Israel following intense Jewish-Arab violence and riots that erupted across the country on Wednesday, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas in the ... Continue Reading
Magen David Adom Before Mount Meron Tragedy: ‘Every Year We Came Back With a Sigh of Relief No Disaster Happened’
Volunteers at Israel’s national ambulance and disaster-relief organization, Magen David Adom — who were the first to come to the rescue at the mass-casualty incident, which took lives of 45 people on the eve of Lag B’Omer at Mount Meron in the Galilee — had feared that a disaster happening at the ... Continue Reading
Israel’s postal service to issue commemorative stamps in recognition of Magen David Adom
How do you recognize an organization that’s proved vital in saving lives during the worst pandemic in more than a century? For Israel, one way is to immortalize them by issuing postage stamps paying homage to their work. Three postage stamps commemorating the work of Magen David Adom, Israel’s ... Continue Reading
A year since Israel’s first COVID patient: Looking back
No one could have envisioned the year of the pandemic. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Magen David Adom paramedic Rami Maushar was scared but excited the night of February 21. He stood on the cold tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport to greet the 11 Israelis who were returning to the country after being ... Continue Reading
Vaccinations
Magen David Adom reported last week (7th January) that it has completed the first round of vaccinations in all of the country’s nursing home and elderly-care facilities, making Israel the first country in the world to provide phase 1 vaccinations to all its nursing home patients. This week, the ... Continue Reading
IDF soldiers top record with blood drive
IDF soldiers set a record for the largest annual blood donation in the last ten years! The blood phlebotomists reserve unit was set up by the Medical Corps to assist MDA Blood Services efforts during the Covid-19 outbreak. The record was set in 2020 by the IDF soldiers for donating about 72,000 ... Continue Reading
8 MDA Miracles for 8 nights of Chanukah
Naama’s story No one could believe it when the emergency call came in that a 6-year-old girl in Israel was having a stroke. And when Naama lost consciousness in the ambulance on the way to the hospital it looked like the worst was about to happen. Naama had woken up from a nap screaming that ... Continue Reading