Day 10: Monday 16th October


Lior Eshel, MDA Senior EMT in the Ayalon Region is saving lives on the morning shift today, on an ambulance carrying the picture of his niece Roni, kidnapped and missing in Gaza. Lior, we send you strength, and we pray for her safe return, along with the other 239 kidnapped victims.
Magen David Adom: A vision of dedication, determination to save lives (An excerpt from The Jerusalem Post) — In the decades that Eli Bin, director-general of Magen David Adom, has been leading the organization, the pandemic has been one of MDA’s most significant challenges. The national fight against the spread of the Covid-19 virus “caught” MDA…
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.
The annual Solicitors, Accountants and Professionals luncheon was held on March 13, 2017 entitled ‘Denial, Defamation and Discourse: the boundaries between legitimate comment and hate speech ‘with Robert Goot. Mr Goot reviewed the celebrated victory of Prof Deborah Lipstadt against Holocaust denier David Irving in the English High Court in 2001, and examined the Australian…
On June 24, 2021, a 12-storey beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed killing 98 people and injuring many more.
Doctors, EMTs and paramedics from the South Florida Hatzalah, many of whom volunteer with the Magen David Adom International Unit, were among the first at the scene to provide lifesaving medical care, alongside rescue organisations.