Young MDA 2017

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…

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,…

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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…

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…