Day 13: MDA Activity Summary for the Day


Over the past year, MDA NSW has been delighted to be able to boost MDA Israel’s fleet by three ambulances and two medicyles. One ambulance and a medicycle have been donated by a most generous and very unassuming benefactor, Dr Cyril Aarons. Cyril was born in 1928 in London. He served in the British army…

Joshua Rothstein finished Magen David Adom’s final EMT exam, scoring a perfect 100. That same day, when he arrived at the Haganah train station in Tel Aviv to return to his home in Rehovot, he heard an announcement requesting immediate medical assistance. Right: Joshua Rothstein reunites with Igor Kirkopolo after saving his life a week…

The Jerusalem Post — The dispatch systems of Israel’s three rescue services are now interconnected so any of the three agencies — the Israel Police, the Fire and Rescue Service, and Magen David Adom — can now automatically dispatch one another in emergencies without having to manually contact them, as was previously necessary. The interconnect, which…
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…

Beautiful recognition from the city of Jerusalem, where the walls of the old city were lit up with the words “Jerusalem salutes Magen David Adom”.

MDA’s Jerusalem Station recently hosted some very esteemed visitors – nine social media influencers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Morocco and Bahrain.