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MDA team reunites with ‘medical miracle’ they saved from Nova festival.

Noa Shimoni, Naama Gal, and Noam Waisbuch. After being shot multiple times by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival in Re’im on October 7, Naama Gal hid in a garbage container playing dead. When a Magen David Adom team from Tel Aviv reached her… Read more

Israel’s fortified underground blood bank processes unprecedented amounts as troops move into Gaza

RAMLA, Israel (AP) — Hours after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, the country’s new fortified, subterranean blood bank kicked into action. Staffers moved equipment into the underground bunker and started saving lives. The Marcus National Blood Services Center in… Read more

Churches across the Southeast come together in support of Israel and MDA.

From left: Tammy Karu; Rob Rosenthal, AFMDA chief marketing officer; Yoni Yagodovsky; Pastor Winston Parrish; Ralph Sexton Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity Baptist Church and founder of Ralph Sexton Ministries.  Thousands of Christians across the Southeast came out in solidarity on October 25 for A Night… Read more

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer visits MDA’s blood center.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made a special visit to MDA’s Marcus National Blood Services Center this week. On his tour with Professor Eilat Shinar, Director of Magen David Adom’s Blood Services Division, he learned about the blood center’s vital role in both times of peace and… Read more

Walmart condemns ‘inhuman and horrific’ Hamas attack, pledges $1m. to Magen David Adom.

Walmart is invested in several Israeli tech companies, including Team8, and has acquired several more in the past 5 years. In the face of ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the Walmart Foundation has taken a strong stance in support of humanitarian efforts, pledging… Read more

Milk Bank feeds more infants in need.

Scientists at the Sussman National Human Milk Bank processing breastmilk. Throughout Israel’s war with Hamas, Magen David Adom’s national Sussman Family Foundation Human Milk Bank has supplied more than 600 liters of breast milk to premature babies, babies who were orphaned, babies whose mothers… Read more

Israel’s emergency medical service to receive $88 million in gift led by Michael Bloomberg.

The former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist said he would match $44 million in donations from nearly 34,000 people. Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he would donate nearly $44 million to Magen David Adom, Israel’s nonprofit emergency medical service, after… Read more

Ambassador Gilad Erdan shares Amit Man’s story at the UN.

At an emergency meeting of the United Nation’s General Assembly on the war, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, told the story of Amit Man, a Magen David Adom paramedic killed while saving lives in Kibbutz Be’eri. His speech, in its entirety, underlined the… Read more

Medics flock to fulfill last ask of one of their own.

Magen David Adom volunteer Yarin Peled’s last wish before she fell in battle was for her colleagues to accompany her on her final journey wearing the uniforms of the organization she loved so dearly. Hundreds of people, including volunteers and employees of the… Read more

Cathy Reed speaks with the Reverend Al Sharpton.

In a new interview on PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, American Friends of Magen David Adom CEO, Cathy Reed, explains what MDA does in Israel, what MDA’s current challenges are, and the toll this conflict has taken on MDA’s 33,000 volunteers. “Remember,” Reed says,… Read more