Day 6 of the Iron Swords War: MDA Activity Summary for the Day


EMT Abraham Ivri started working at MDA about a month ago. His wife Reut, who was 9 months pregnant feared that when she went into labour her husband would be on duty. On Saturday night she went into labour, and as she had feared husband was on shift. In a race against the clock Abraham…
On Wednesday, Magen David Adom and Zichron Menachem, an Israeli nonprofit for children with cancer, held “Double Donation Day,” an event that encouraged their employees and the Israeli public to donate hair and/or blood. In total, 144 braids were collected from both women and men to create natural, high-quality wigs for cancer patients, and 194…
Magen David Adom bows its head and mourns the death of the MDA paramedic, Amit Man, a 22-year-old resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, who was shot and killed on Saturday when she was treating the wounded who came to the clinic in the town of Be’eri where she lived during the Hamas surprise attack on the…
Israel’s conflict with terrorists in Gaza took a more ominous turn Tuesday when five people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl, in separate rocket strikes that left many others injured, three of them critically. Early in the day, two women were killed in Ashkelon when rockets separately struck a private home and an apartment building….