In one week, three terrorist attacks have erupted in Israel, leaving 11 dead and six wounded. Today’s attack proved the deadliest with five people killed in Bnei Brak, a Tel Aviv suburb. This follows two Islamic State-inspired attacks in the northern city of Hadera and the southern city of Be’er Sheva. Magen David Adom nearly…

out to be terrorist acts by the same perpetrator. An Arab Israeli from Hura, a southern Bedouin town, repeatedly stabbed a woman at a gas station, ran over a cyclist with his car, and stabbed four people at a shopping center. The stabbings were particularly brutal. Throats were slashed and in at least one case…

TIMES OF ISRAEL — Three Israeli rescue organizations joined forces to rescue Ukrainian Holocaust survivors and other civilians wounded amid Russia’s invasion and bring them to Israel for treatment. Zaka, Hatzolah Air, and Magen David Adom raised some US$ 70,000 to charter a private jet with medical equipment to treat and evacuate the wounded waiting…

Over & above our usual operations in Israel, Magen David Adom is working tirelessly to assist and support the emergency work in Ukraine and to provide urgent care to those arriving in Israel, many of them holocaust survivors requiring immediate medical attention. MDA’s ongoing emergency operations include: Armored ambulances sent to Ukraine – Due to…

Israel’s Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz visited the MDA National Command and Control Centre in Kiryat Ono on Thursday morning. The minister met with MDA Director-General Eli Bin who shared the challenges MDA faces daily, how Covid has compounded them, and the lifesaving organization’s solutions to overcoming them. The minister viewed a presentation by Chief Information…

As a result of the historic Abraham Accords peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, this week a joint training took place between Magen David Adom and the Emirati National Ambulance Service. The exercise was conducted virtually with observers from the Netherlands, Italy and France. The simulated multi-casualty scenario involved a bus accident…

On Wednesday, Magen David Adom and Zichron Menachem, an Israeli nonprofit for children with cancer, held “Double Donation Day,” an event that encouraged their employees and the Israeli public to donate hair and/or blood. In total, 144 braids were collected from both women and men to create natural, high-quality wigs for cancer patients, and 194…

Israel Regev, 92, from Haifa, and his sister, Yeti Itzik, 96, from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the Gaza border, both Holocaust survivors, have not seen each other for more than 10 years. The siblings maintained regular telephone contact, but because of their medical conditions and distance, they have not been able to hug or see…

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national paramedic and Red Cross service, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), one of Israel’s leading universities, are affiliating in an academic initiative designed to improve training for paramedics and EMTs and the quality of pre-hospital emergency care in Israel and potentially around the world. The academic affiliation is…

Last week, an ambulance was called to a house in Netanya by the wife of an elderly man who had fallen. After he was treated, Romy Peled, a youth volunteer who was part of the crew, noticed that the couple needed more than just medical assistance. “The patient told us about his and his wife’s…

Magen David Adom inaugurated National Defibrillator Awareness Day in Israel on Tuesday, February 22nd. All week, MDA staff and volunteers are hosting CPR and defibrillator training throughout the country in malls, parks, and other public spaces In Israel, some 8,000 cardiac deaths occur each year, and about half happen outside of hospitals. MDA is working…