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From battlefields to birth rooms, the medics and midwives who keep showing up.

I have written here before about Israel’s everyday angels – the volunteers, soldiers, neighbors, and strangers who step into the breach when life turns upside down. But there is one group I have been saving for its own tribute, because nothing else would do them justice: the heroes in white, the men and women of Magen David Adom.

If you have ever stood at the side of a road, watched an ambulance tear past, lights flashing and sirens cutting through the air, you know the feeling – that quickening in your chest that says, help is on the way. For Israel, on October 7 and in every exhausting, terrifying day since, that help has had a name: MDA.

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