Day 20 – Iron Swords War: MDA Daily Update



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…

Magen David Adom reported last week (7th January) that it has completed the first round of vaccinations in all of the country’s nursing home and elderly-care facilities, making Israel the first country in the world to provide phase 1 vaccinations to all its nursing home patients. This week, the second round of vaccinations will begin,…

Volunteers at Israel’s national ambulance and disaster-relief organization, Magen David Adom — who were the first to come to the rescue at the mass-casualty incident, which took lives of 45 people on the eve of Lag B’Omer at Mount Meron in the Galilee — had feared that a disaster happening at the site was a…

7-year-old Rafael Yotam fulfilled his dream of becoming a captain on a navy ship. About four years ago, Rafael Yotam Cohen, who has cancer, fulfilled a dream using an MDA Wish Ambulance – and flew in an MDA-Lahak emergency helicopter in the southern skies of the country. Recently, Rafael Yotam’s rare illness returned for the…
Over 230 supporters of Australian Friends Magen David Adom friends once again filled the cinema at Westfield on Wednesday 21 November for the Annual MDA Movie Night. Attendees viewed ‘The Mossad, Imperfect Spies’ which provides a rare insight into Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, which has been almost completely sealed off to the media. For the…