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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,…
Twelve people from one family volunteer for Magen David Adom.
Meet the Noiman family, where no fewer than 12 members of the family volunteer in Magen David Adom’s Jerusalem Region. The love story between the Noiman family and MDA started when the patriarch of the family, Zvi Noiman, of blessed memory, began his journey in the medical world as an army medic and instilled in…
MDA’s oldest Medicycle first responder celebrates his 80th birthday.
Alex Michigan, a senior EMT, just celebrated his 80th birthday and marked 50 years of volunteering with Magen David Adom. He is also MDA’s oldest Medicycle driver. “My wife and daughter pressure me to get off the motorcycle, but I can’t; I’m addicted,” said Michigan. “To this day, I also take turns in a Mobile…
Doctors and paramedics from around the world join MDA’s International Unit.
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…
Seven killed, several wounded, in two separate Shabbat Jerusalem terror attacks.
The quiet of Shabbat in Jerusalem was shattered by gunfire when a terrorist opened fire on passersby on the street, including a motorcyclist and people outside a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood on Friday, January 27. On Saturday morning, another shooter shot two men in the City of David. On Friday night, seven people…
