Donors must meet certain criteria, including COVID illness and recovery within the last several months, so that antibodies will be relevant for newer variants of the virus. As COVID cases rise again and new variants emerge, Magen David Adom’s national blood bank service is calling… Read more
The employees took part in a worldwide Amazon volunteer initiative. Dozens of Amazon Israel employees took part in a volunteer initiative at the Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramle. They helped prepare hundreds of fluid transfusion kits and medical equipment bags for MDA… Read more
A resident of Riverdale, N.Y., Konig brings experience as a senior development executive and Hillel director. Samuel Konig has been named director of strategic philanthropy of American Friends of Magen David Adom’s Northeast Region. He assumed his new role on August 14, 2023. American Friends… Read more
Magen David Adom is using its in-house team to design all of its technology that is being used all over the world. In the ever-changing medical industry, Israel stands out as a frontrunner in making significant technological strides in the field. Leading this advancement is… Read more
Fourteen other EMTs and paramedics also received recognition for service. At a special event on Sunday night, August 21, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich along with Magen David Adom Director-General Eli Bin, and MDA management, staff, and volunteers gathered to confer awards of excellence and commendation… Read more
About two months ago, Nurit Moses, 58, left her job in Savion, got into her car, and began her routine drive to her home in Netanya after a busy day at work. After driving for a few minutes, Moses stopped at a traffic light in… Read more
Haas family sponsors lifesaving vehicle for Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency health system. By every measure, Ernest Haas was a survivor, having endured enslavement in more than four Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. Now, nearly seven years after… Read more
Just prior to the end of her term as president of the American Heart Association (AHA), Dr. Michelle A. Albert visited Magen David Adom’s National Operations Center and Marcus National Blood Services Center. “My visit to Magen David Adom was really amazing,” said Dr. Albert. Read more
Twenty-year-old Benny Gustafson, a Jewish college student from Wisconsin, transformed his profound grief over the loss of his [older] brother, Jack Gustafson, into a force for positive change by volunteering with Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s eminent medical emergency service. Benny… Read more
A 45-year-old Bnei Brak man last month experienced two clinical death episodes and lived to tell about them thanks to a joint lifesaving initiative by Magen David Adom and Shamir Medical Center that put a heart-lung bypass machine on an… Read more
