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How Israeli AI can help 911 call centers.
Op-ed by Eli Bin.
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…
MDA team rescues people trapped under rubble in Turkey.
Felix Lotan, a senior paramedic who oversees disaster response for Magen David Adom, is a member of Israel’s search and rescue team, which was dispatched to Turkey following that country’s earthquake Monday. Today, together with the IDF team, he rescued a 12-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman who had been under the rubble for nearly…
Her Christian faith makes her a devoted supporter of Magen David Adom.
Betty Kemp knows all about making sacrifices. In the 1990s, Kemp served three years in the United States Army and an additional two years in the U.S. Army Reserves. She was honorably discharged from the service as a captain. Since then, as a civilian, she has worked as a home healthcare provider, where sacrifice means…
MDA participates in U.S. Hatzalah expo.
Magen David Adom, Israel’s national paramedic organization, is demonstrating its cutting-edge ambulance dispatch system to American EMTs at the Hatzalah Expo, a gathering of Jewish volunteer EMS organizations, on October 30 and 31 at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Hatzalah South Florida currently uses a version of the software that has been tailored to their…
Another terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
A 6-year-old boy and 20-year-old man were killed and five other Israelis injured in Jerusalem just hours before the start of Shabbat today when a terrorist rammed his vehicle into a crowd waiting at a bus stop. A Magen David Adom paramedic witnessed the attack and began providing aid immediately while other MDA EMTs and…
Three Israelis killed, three injured in Ariel terrorist stabbing rampage
The lone attacker was identified as 18-year-old Muhammed Soof who worked as a cleaner in the Ariel industrial zone. Three Israelis were killed and four others injured in a terror rampage in the West Bank city of Ariel on Tuesday. According to the military, two civilians were killed at the “Ten” gas station in Ariel…