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New life emerges amid echoes of explosions.
One Israeli refused to adhere to the red alert sirens as hundreds of rockets were being launched into his hometown of Ashkelon. Baby Boy Greenberg was ready to come into this world, and nothing was going to stop him. On Sunday, August 7, Maayan Greenberg, 32, went into labor. Surrounded by explosions and sirens, she…
NSW donates ambulance and 23 medicycles to MDA Israel
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With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer
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