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A unique Advanced Life Support Boat was dedicated by Magen David Adom at Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) in Tiberias. The Advanced Life Support Boat can moor close enough to shore where team members can disembark and load patients without setting foot in the water. It can travel the widest length of the lake in…
Small change makes a big difference
Having a Tzedakah box in the home is a reminder of the importance of giving charity to a worthy cause like Magen David Adom which saves lives in Israel every day. If you would like a box or yours needs emptying, please phone the MDA office on 9358 2521 and a volunteer will make arrangements…
Monitoring systems set up in ambulances to protect medics
MDA continues to innovate the way we battle coronavirus. Since the beginning, MDA has been at the forefront of handling the pandemic and as a result, many of our staff have and are at risk of contracting the virus. To mitigate this, MDA, along with Mifal Hapais, Israel’s National Lottery, have set up monitoring systems…
With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer
JERUSALEM – The elderly grandmother had a fever and felt weak, despite the antibiotics her family doctor had prescribed a couple of days earlier for a urinary tract infection. Instead of feeling better, she was getting worse. That’s when her worried family made an urgent call to Magen David Adom – Israel’s national emergency medical…
He collapsed in his kayak; MDA saved his life.
When Danny Atali, 66, suffered a heart attack in Ashdod Yam Park and collapsed in his kayak, his friends, park personnel, and MDA did all the right things to save his life. MDA EMT Yarin Hayat alerted the park worker where the defibrillator was, opened it remotely, and provided instructions on its use. She also…