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MDA treats several injured in Shfar’am and Ramat Gan in violent Monday.

Shfar’am Ramat Gan Magen David Adom responded to rocket strikes in both northern and central Israel on Monday. In Shfrar’am, an Arab town in northern Israel, MDA EMTs and paramedics pronounced a female in her 50s deceased. She was killed while in a protected area… Read more

MDA participates in emergency preparedness drill at Ben Gurion Airport. 

To maintain operational readiness, MDA participated in an aviation emergency exercise at Israel’s main airport. Magen David Adom participated in an emergency scenario at Ben Gurion Airport in which there was a plane crash involving 290 passengers. As Israel’s national emergency services system, MDA participated in… Read more

MDA declares two men dead in Nahariya after being hit by a rocket.

The two men were struck by a rocket from Lebanon. Two men were killed when a warehouse in Nahariya was hit by a rocket. Magen David Adom dispatched ambulances, Mobile Intensive Care Units, and Medicycles following red alert sirens in the northern Israeli city of… Read more

MDA medical team assists in rescue efforts in Amsterdam.

After Israeli soccer fans were brutally attacked in Amsterdam, MDA and El Al collaborated on a plan to care for and evacuate them. Magen David Adom sent a team of paramedics and medical personnel to Amsterdam on Friday to assist with medical care and accompany… Read more

After saving his life on Oct. 7, MDA paramedic Alisa Krant reunited with policeman Rami Cohen.

On the morning of October 7, police officer Rami Cohen rushed to the Sderot police station after hearing loud gunfire. Outside the station he saw a dead woman sprawled inside a car. He cautiously checked inside the car and found two little girls hiding under… Read more

In memory of Bernard “Bernie” Marcus.

The National Board and staff of AFMDA mourn the passing of Bernard ‘Bernie” Marcus, z”l. Bernie Marcus, z”l, on a trip to the site of the Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramla. American Friends of Magen David Adom mourns the passing of Bernard “Bernie”… Read more

MDA treats 11 injured in rocket strike in central Israel.

Magen David Adom received calls at 2:22 a.m. regarding a direct rocket strike by Hezbollah on a building in the Arab town of Tira. MDA immediately dispatched EMTs and paramedics in MICUs, ambulances, and Medicycles to the scene. MDA EMTs and paramedics provided medical treatment… Read more

MDA namesake remembered.

After a baby was delivered in a MICU dedicated in memory of a MDA paramedic, the new parents decided to name their newborn after him. Dorit and Assaf Shemen meet baby Tamar, her parents, Shahar Shaul-Ariel and Evyatar Shaul, and the MDA team: Saar Shai,… Read more

MDA pronounces two dead in olive grove rocket strike in northern Israel.

Following a rocket strike which hit an olive grove near the Gil’am junction in northern Israel, Magen David Adom dispatched a large amount of medics to the scene including ambulances, Mobile Intensive Care Units, and Medicycles to provide medical assistance. After performing resuscitation efforts, MDA… Read more

Meet the medic who understood on Oct. 7 she must do everything to save a child.

Dispatch teams gave hotline callers life-saving medical treatment advice over the phone on October 7. One such woman told children where to hide from terrorists. When Linoy El-Ezra arrived for her morning shift that Saturday at the MDA dispatch center, she immediately felt… Read more