Meet the Noiman family, where no fewer than 12 members of the family volunteer in Magen David Adom’s Jerusalem Region. The love story between the Noiman family and MDA started when the patriarch of the family, Zvi Noiman, of blessed memory, began his journey in the medical world as an army medic and instilled in…
Dana Khalili of Jerusalem, suddenly woke up one night with contractions. She roused her husband, Asher, and they began the drive to the hospital. “On the way to the hospital my water broke,” said Dana. So they stopped on the side of the road and called 101, MDA’s emergency hotline. Yossi Himmelfarb, the EMT who…
Betty Kemp knows all about making sacrifices. In the 1990s, Kemp served three years in the United States Army and an additional two years in the U.S. Army Reserves. She was honorably discharged from the service as a captain. Since then, as a civilian, she has worked as a home healthcare provider, where sacrifice means…
Two terrorist bombs exploded at bus stops during Jerusalem’s morning rush hour today, killing a 16-year-old Canadian yeshiva student and injuring 22 other people, four of them critically. Magen David Adom teams were on the scene immediately, providing lifesaving treatment, as paramedics and EMTs nearby at MDA’s William H. Bloomberg Emergency Medical Station heard the…
The lone attacker was identified as 18-year-old Muhammed Soof who worked as a cleaner in the Ariel industrial zone. Three Israelis were killed and four others injured in a terror rampage in the West Bank city of Ariel on Tuesday. According to the military, two civilians were killed at the “Ten” gas station in Ariel…
Haaretz — Israelis trust Magen David Adom’s skilled medical teams to save lives 24/7 by rushing to the scenes of accidents, violent incidents, and other emergencies. Few are aware of the organization’s remarkable efforts to fine-tune its operations by adopting innovative technologies — and save even more lives. When someone in Israel calls 101 — the emergency…
Alex Michigan, a senior EMT, just celebrated his 80th birthday and marked 50 years of volunteering with Magen David Adom. He is also MDA’s oldest Medicycle driver. “My wife and daughter pressure me to get off the motorcycle, but I can’t; I’m addicted,” said Michigan. “To this day, I also take turns in a Mobile…
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News — Magen David Adom joined an international multi-casualty drill that featured three different scenes representing three different sized incidents on October 30. As part of the drill concluding the annual disaster workshop arranged by the Madrid municipality, 1,200 emergency personnel, including staff from MDA alongside EMS crews from other countries such as…
When Shimon Michaeli, just 2.5 years-old stopped breathing during the night, his 13-year-old brother, Nissim noticed. Nissim’s quick action led to an immediate call to MDA. “I came home from a friend’s bar mitzvah and got in bed. I noticed he wasn’t breathing properly,” said Nissim. Nissim woke his parents who called MDA. The EMT…
Terror attacks in Israel continue to escalate, occurring nearly daily. Last Saturday, five people were shot and wounded outside a convenience store near Hebron. One of them was one of our own. Ofer Ohana is a senior EMT with Magen David Adom who responded within minutes. While attempting to treat one of the victims, who…
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,…
Magen David Adom, Israel’s national paramedic organization, is demonstrating its cutting-edge ambulance dispatch system to American EMTs at the Hatzalah Expo, a gathering of Jewish volunteer EMS organizations, on October 30 and 31 at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Hatzalah South Florida currently uses a version of the software that has been tailored to their…