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Doctors and paramedics from around the world join MDA’s International Unit.
ByMDA
Magen David Adom’s International Unit, established in 2007, includes hundreds of doctors and paramedics from a number of countries who voluntarily come to Israel to receive emergency service training. This enables them to return to Israel in times of need to volunteer for MDA. For the first time since the pandemic began, MDA held the…

Israeli killed, 4 hurt in West Bank terror shooting; medic shot while trying to help
ByMDA
Medic in serious condition after arriving to treat victims of attack near Kiryat Arba; Palestinian man also hurt; gunman rammed by a security official, shot dead by an off-duty soldier. A Palestinian terrorist opened fire near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on Saturday night, killing an Israeli man and wounding four other people,…

MDA participates in international multi-casualty drill in Spain.
ByMDA
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News — Magen David Adom joined an international multi-casualty drill that featured three different scenes representing three different sized incidents on October 30. As part of the drill concluding the annual disaster workshop arranged by the Madrid municipality, 1,200 emergency personnel, including staff from MDA alongside EMS crews from other countries such as…

A celebration of light from darkness in Sderot.
ByMDA
Chanukah, a holiday celebrating freedom, is especially meaningful in Sderot. In this southern Israeli city, more than 1,100 rockets were fired from Gaza in 2022. Last year, more than 4,300 rockets were fired into the small city. The men and women of Magen David Adom’s Sderot Station are constantly adjusting between routine and emergency calls,…

How Israeli AI can help 911 call centers.
Op-ed by Eli Bin.
ByMDA
The following opinion piece by MDA Director-General Eli Bin was published in South Florida’s SunSentinel onJanuary 12, 2023. Every week there’s another story in the world media about someone who died because of a problem originating at a 911 call center. In Portland, ambulances are delayed before they’re dispatched while 911 operators go through a…
