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Thousands of teens spent their summer learning how to save lives.
Every summer, Magen David Adom holds intensive training courses for Israel’s youth. This summer was no different. Nearly 2,000 youth participated in various courses. Camp counselors learned first aid and school peer counselors learned how to train younger classes in first aid and motivate their involvement in MDA. Many teens participated in a leadership training…
MDA continues the battle against COVID-19
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak on February 24, 2020, MDA teams have tested over 2.5 million people from all over the country including 4,425 people who have returned to Israel from abroad who were tested at an MDA mobile test stand set up at Ben Gurion Airport. MDA Paramedics have taken 3,000 serological…
MDA treats dozens of injured as Israel faces rockets, riots, and incendiary balloons
In recent weeks, Israelis breathed a collective sign of relief as the country’s world-leading vaccination initiative brought Covid infection rates down and enabled the country to dramatically reduce pandemic restrictions. However, the return to some semblance of normal life didn’t last long. By today, Israeli lives were once again in danger in the form of…
MDA launches new Advanced Life Support Boat.
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…