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Solicitors and Professionals Lunch with Robert Goot AM SC
The annual Solicitors, Accountants and Professionals luncheon was held on March 13, 2017 entitled ‘Denial, Defamation and Discourse: the boundaries between legitimate comment and hate speech ‘with Robert Goot. Mr Goot reviewed the celebrated victory of Prof Deborah Lipstadt against Holocaust denier David Irving in the English High Court in 2001, and examined the Australian…
Third terror attack in week puts Israel on edge
In one week, three terrorist attacks have erupted in Israel, leaving 11 dead and six wounded. Today’s attack proved the deadliest with five people killed in Bnei Brak, a Tel Aviv suburb. This follows two Islamic State-inspired attacks in the northern city of Hadera and the southern city of Be’er Sheva. Magen David Adom nearly…
Australian athlete meets MDA team who saved his life.
Only three weeks ago, a 55-year-old athlete collapsed on the field during a soccer match at the 21st Maccabiah Games. The Australian athlete was playing Columbia in the Masters’ Tournament for athletes 55 and over. The MDA team providing medical coverage for the Maccabiah Games responded immediately. Following CPR and electric shocks with a defibrillator, he was…
MDA helps communities prepare for the unexpected and unimaginable.
Magen David Adom, Israel’s world-renown emergency medical and mass-casualty response organization, has long made sharing its knowledge and experience with the world a priority. One of the ways that goal is achieved is to provide trainings around the world for medical professionals and lay people. The First 7 Minutes is a seminar offered by MDA’s…
Magen David Adom stands in solidarity with the Jewish communities affected by the coronavirus around the world
MDA Israel held a solidarity event on Lag B’omer with communities to honour those effected by Corona Virus around the world As part of the event, speeches and prayers were held for the sick and words of encouragement given by former Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Senior Surgeon Yehuda Skornick and a heartwarming presentation by…
MDA brings Menorah on Wheels to Israelis
Rabbi Yonatan Spitzer, a Magen David Adom ambulance driver and EMT, is bringing the Chanukah spirit across the country with his Menorah on Wheels. The giant chanukiyah is on a trailer towed by an ambulance and accompanied by MDA personnel on Medicycles and all-terrain evacuation vehicles who are sharing the holiday spirit with the public….