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Inside Israel’s underground blood vault and hospital, as the country prepares for new war with Hezbollah.

Israel is preparing for war with Hezbollah by storing blood underground amid repeated attacks from across the border with Lebanon. A subterranean car park in Haifa, just 28 miles from the border, has been converted into a five-acre hospital to cope if war breaks out. Read more

Inspired by a traumatic accident, an Arab-Israeli joins MDA as a volunteer EMT.

Ghazal Hasboun Among the 16 new EMTs who graduated Magen David Adom’s course in Haifa, was a 26-year-old cancer researcher who decided she could not be helpless in the face of acute medical need. When Ghazal Hasboun was seven years old, her family took a… Read more

MDA rushes to the scene of Carmiel mall terror stabbing attack.

Magen David Adom teams treated two injured men, both 20 years old, after a terror attack at a shopping mall in the northern city of Carmiel today. One man is in serious condition and the other was listed in critical condition. After treating the injured… Read more

Two MDA volunteers awarded The President’s Award for Volunteerism.

Amal Falah with her family Zohar Khobra with President Isaac Herzog and Michal Herzog President Isaac Herzog presented two Magen David Adom volunteers, Amal Falah and Zohar Khobra, with awards in recognition of their dedication to volunteering for MDA. Falah has been a volunteer ambulance… Read more

She resolved to save lives on Oct. 7, now she’s a MDA EMT.

The newest class of EMTs in Haifa. After learning that her childhood friend had been injured while defending Israel on October 7, 22-year-old Ayala Mazor resolved to learn how to save lives. She trained with Magen David Adom and is now an EMT in Haifa. Read more

MDA’s Julis station distributes food for Eid al-Adha.

The Magen David Adom station in Julis coordinated an Eid al-Adha food distribution campaign in honor of the major Muslim holiday. Dozens of boxes of food were distributed to the public by MDA volunteers. The MDA station in Julis organizes food distribution efforts throughout the… Read more

After pouring in following October 7, critical human milk donations now run dry.

Director of Israel’s national bank says the country could be short thousands of liters of breast milk should full-scale war break out with Hezbollah in the north. Hundreds of paper hearts and stars adorn the walls of the Sussman Family… Read more

In case of emergency: MDA prepares for Hezbollah attacks, possible power outages.

The announcement came mere hours before Hezbollah launched a heavy barrage of over 40 rockets and five unmanned aerial vehicles from Lebanon into northern Israel. Magen David Adom is preparing for possible power outages in the North in the event… Read more

Healthy baby girl born in apartment elevator with MDA’s help.

Magen David Adom assisted a 31-year-old woman in delivering a healthy baby girl in the elevator of her apartment building. Naomi Dreyfus, who lives in Givat Shmuel in central Israel, called MDA when she began to feel contractions. The MDA Mobile Intensive Care Unit team… Read more

MDA treats toddler mauled by jackal while camping in the Negev.

A jackal at the Yarkon Park. Photo by Anat Hermony/Flash90. A one-year-old toddler was moderately injured after a jackal snatched him out of his family’s camping tent and bit him. Fellow campers at the Ein Gviv campsite in the Negev called Magen David Adom when… Read more