Young MDA 2017

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…

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…

Twenty-one years ago, while the Drori family was preparing dinner, 2-year-old Tzur disappeared. The worried family went into the yard to look for him, and found him unconscious in the pond at the entrance. “It was a terrifying sight,” recalled Limor, Tzur’s mother. “I ran to call my mother who is a nurse, in the…

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…

Terror attacks in Israel continue to escalate, occurring nearly daily. Last Saturday, five people were shot and wounded outside a convenience store near Hebron. One of them was one of our own. Ofer Ohana is a senior EMT with Magen David Adom who responded within minutes. While attempting to treat one of the victims, who…

Dana Khalili of Jerusalem, suddenly woke up one night with contractions. She roused her husband, Asher, and they began the drive to the hospital. “On the way to the hospital my water broke,” said Dana. So they stopped on the side of the road and called 101, MDA’s emergency hotline. Yossi Himmelfarb, the EMT who…