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Teaching by example.

Meet three teachers who traded the school bell for an ambulance siren this summer. Meital Avital When Meital Avital’s son was an infant, he was sick and had a seizure. With no medical training of her own, Avital felt helpless and called Magen David Adom… Read more

Blood relatives.

Arab-Israeli MDA volunteer organizes annual blood donation campaign in Um al-Fahm. After losing his mother to cancer nine years ago, Dr. Bashir Namrawi initiated a blood drive in her memory. An internist and a volunteer with Magen David Adom, Dr. Namwari organizes the blood drive… Read more

Still pumping.

A 26-year-old gym buff suffered cardiac arrest while working out. He reunited with the MDA team who saved his life. Back at the gym: Weintraub met the MDA team who saved his life. It was an ordinary day in the Tel Aviv University dorm gym. Read more

Their love grew at MDA.

Tu B’Av love stories: three couples who love MDA almost as much as they love each other. Sometimes volunteering at Magen David Adom instills more than a sense of helping others and doing good deeds. Sometimes love blooms among volunteers. In honor of Tu B’Av,… Read more

In northern Israel, midwives prepare expectant mothers for birth during war.

With ‘First Contractions,’ expectant mothers get ready for worst-case scenarios: delivering their babies safely at home if they can’t get to a hospital and nobody can reach them. SHAVEI ZION — Roni Tenne Cohen, a Galilee Medical Center midwife, kept… Read more

MDA has processed 3.6 tons of breastmilk since October 7.

Since October 7, 3.6 tons of breastmilk have been donated to the Sussman Family Foundation Human Milk Bank. This incredible amount of human milk, a testament to the lovingkindness which pervades Israeli society, has been fed to premature babies and other… Read more

MDA medic recounts identifying daughter among Majdal Shams massacre victims.

Two weeks after Hezbollah killed 12 Druze Israeli children in Majdal Shams, Adham Safadi, a senior MDA medic recounts how he identified his dead daughter lying on the ground with her Arsenal jersey and then saved an injured child. The… Read more

The Red Star of David: How Israel is preparing for a large-scale attack.

JERUSALEM – As Iran and Hezbollah escalate their threats against Israel, the nation’s emergency services are preparing for potential large-scale attacks. CBN News got an exclusive look at how Israel’s national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, is readying itself… Read more

MDA volunteer Shimon saved Yoni’s life after he was injured at work.

Air conditioner technician Yoni Shalom suffered a severe injury at work when he was burned by a butane gas explosion. Shimon Bardi, a Magen David Adom volunteer, saved Shalom’s life. Six months later, Shalom invited Bardi to a thanksgiving dinner to express his gratitude. Bardi,… Read more

Tense Israel in waiting as attack threat looms.

RAMLA, Israel, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Israel’s ambulance service has stocked blood supplies in a fortified underground centre,… Read more