Day 13: MDA Activity Summary for the Day

“The reason we donated the ambulance is precisely for moments like this!”  Holocaust survivors Simon Lipczyc and Augusta Suzanna Lipczyz-Brand made Aliya to Israel from Belgium just 8 months ago. They looked for a good cause in Israel to which they would like to make a large donation. After some time and thought, they decided…

One Israeli refused to adhere to the red alert sirens as hundreds of rockets were being launched into his hometown of Ashkelon. Baby Boy Greenberg was ready to come into this world, and nothing was going to stop him. On Sunday, August 7, Maayan Greenberg, 32, went into labor. Surrounded by explosions and sirens, she…

While hiking with her father and brother, a 3-year-old girl fell into a 50-foot well in northern Israel. Her father subsequently fell after the ladder installed in the well broke when he attempted to climb down to rescue his daughter. The man told his 5-year-old son to go for help. The boy found other hikers…

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…