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Inside Israel’s underground emergency center fighting to save lives.

As missile barrages from Iran continue to test Israel’s emergency response network, Magen David Adom (MDA), the country’s national ambulance service, has taken its operations deep underground. From its headquarters near Ben Gurion Airport, teams of paramedics and dispatchers… Read more

MDA teams treat 115 following two missile strikes in southern Israel.

On Saturday evening, Magen David Adom emergency responders were dispatched across multiple scenes of destruction when two missile strikes hit southern Israel within hours of each other, injuring more than 100 people. Responders described scenes of rubble, smoke, shattered glass, and residents caught in the… Read more

New initiative brings blood donation into residential buildings.

Israel faces a critical blood shortage. Injured civilians, soldiers, hospital patients, and women in labor all depend on available blood to survive. Magen David Adom is responding with a new approach: mobile blood donation units set up inside residential buildings. This lets Israelis donate without… Read more

Israeli first responders on maximum alert under Iran missile fire.

In this nerve centre for Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, three floors underground in Ramla, near Tel Aviv, a paramedic adjusts her helmet then picks up the phone to dispatch her colleagues: four debris impact sites have just… Read more

A birth between sirens.

MDA paramedic Amit Barlev When Magen David Adom’s emergency dispatch center received a call about a woman in labor in a car near Be’er Sheva, an EMT immediately began walking her husband through delivery instructions over the phone while medical teams rushed to the scene. Read more

“I shielded the baby with my body:” paramedic protects newborn during Iran missile alert.

“I shielded the baby with my body.” That is how Magen David Adom paramedic Elad Pas describes the moment an ambulance birth on a highway in southern Israel coincided with a missile alert. The newborn had just begun crying… Read more

22 Haredi women complete MDA medic training and begin volunteering.

A festive ceremony marked a milestone for 22 ultra-Orthodox women from Jerusalem and the surrounding area, who have officially completed their emergency medicine training with Magen David Adom and are now joining the organization as active volunteers. The graduates will serve aboard MDA ambulances and… Read more

MDA conducts major emergency drill in Eilat to prepare for mass-casualty missile scenarios.

In a sweeping demonstration of Israel’s emergency preparedness infrastructure, the national emergency medical service Magen David Adom (MDA) conducted a large-scale exercise Thursday in the southern resort city of Eilat, simulating the aftermath of coordinated missile strikes that left… Read more

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog visit MDA national headquarters.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog paid a visit to the national headquarters of Magen David Adom (MDA) in Ramla, where they received a comprehensive briefing on the organization’s operations and met with frontline responders. MDA Director-General Eli Bin walked the presidential… Read more

MDA’s command center coordinates Israel’s emergency response.

As Iranian missiles begin their deadly trajectory, large screens at Magen David Adom’s national dispatch center mark the areas likely to be targeted. Missile alerts flash on the phones of Israelis in those zones, as well as on the… Read more