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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…
Israel in chaos: Police arrest hundreds in Jewish-Arab violence across country
Riots spread across several cities throughout Israel with mixed Arab and Jewish populations. Some 374 people were arrested throughout Israel following intense Jewish-Arab violence and riots that erupted across the country on Wednesday, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. A Jewish citizen in his 30s was in critical condition…
A year since Israel’s first COVID patient: Looking back
No one could have envisioned the year of the pandemic. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Magen David Adom paramedic Rami Maushar was scared but excited the night of February 21. He stood on the cold tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport to greet the 11 Israelis who were returning to the country after being quarantined on the Diamond Princess “coronavirus” ship for…
JPost spotlights MDA as top organization in Israel, interviews Eli Bin.
Magen David Adom: A vision of dedication, determination to save lives (An excerpt from The Jerusalem Post) — In the decades that Eli Bin, director-general of Magen David Adom, has been leading the organization, the pandemic has been one of MDA’s most significant challenges. The national fight against the spread of the Covid-19 virus “caught” MDA…
Wish Ambulance fulfills a boy’s dream to go horseback riding again.
Idan Yaron, a boy with special needs near Haifa, Israel, recently celebrated his 17th birthday. Idan loves horses and horseback riding had become very therapeutic for him. However, the equestrian center he used to visit closed when coronavirus started and has not reopened. “I decided I would try to surprise Idan by contacting Magen David…