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“One cannot imagine Israel’s medical system without Magen David Adom,” says health minister
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…
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…
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…
Born in a Special Ambulance
“The reason we donated the ambulance is precisely for moments like this!” Holocaust survivors Simon Lipczyc and Augusta Suzanna Lipczyz-Brand made Aliya to Israel from Belgium just 8 months ago. They looked for a good cause in Israel to which they would like to make a large donation. After some time and thought, they decided…
Safeguarding MDA crews health
Magen David Adom has announced a first of its kind solution to safeguard medical teams and the ambulance driver from being infected by the COVID-19 patients being transported. Over 100 donated MDA ambulances were specially redesigned internally in order to safely transport COVID-19 patients. With the help of the IDF’s Technology and Logistics Division, a…