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MDA’s Wish Ambulance brings Holocaust survivor to Knesset and Yad Vashem.

On April 18, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Magen David Adom’s Wish Ambulance team brought 92-year-old Aharon Shechter, a Holocaust survivor, to visit the Knesset and Yad Vashem. He was invited to Israel’s seat of government by Knesset Chairperson MK Amir Ohana. Aharon Shechter with… Read more

MDA aids Shoah survivors seeking lost relatives.

In the year since Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) 2022, the Tracing Services at Magen David Adom received 150 requests for help in locating relatives and renewing family ties. In dozens of these cases, distant relatives were connected or information was discovered… Read more

Dozens of MDA volunteers and staff visit Nazi death camps ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Arutz Sheva/Israel National News — The Magen David Adom [annual] delegation to Poland included about 50 of the organization’s volunteers and staff from across Israel who set out on a journey through the paths of Jewish history in Poland. During the trip, members of the… Read more

Israel tests drone delivery for blood and medical supplies.

In times of war and natural disaster, drones could be the fastest and most efficient way to get blood products and medicines to hospitals in the periphery and to IDF in the field. On the morning of March 28, an… Read more

MDA enhances its computer-aided dispatch system with first-in-the-world AI tech.

A new artificial intelligence [feature] has been installed in Magen David Adom’s 101 [computer-aided] emergency dispatch center to help EMTs and paramedics get the information they need, so help can arrive faster. The [new tech] developed with the voice networking and media… Read more

Lebanon War pilot meets the MDA paramedic who saved his life.

Seventeen years ago during the Second Lebanon War (2006), Capt. Noam Gershony’s life was saved by a Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic who pulled him from the wreckage after his helicopter crashed and gave him critical medical treatment. Unconscious for days, Gershony –… Read more

MDA mother and son team save neighbor’s life.

When Uriel Reubens, 60, an assistant truck driver, collapsed during a routine trip, the truck driver immediately pulled over and dialed Magen David Adom’s 101 emergency hotline. The EMT dispatcher instructed him on how to perform CPR, while simultaneously dispatching the closest ambulance. A few… Read more

MDA volunteer and an American citizen killed in terror attacks.

Yigal Yaniv, z”l, practices CPR in the EMT course he was supposed to graduate from this week. On Sunday, February 26, two Israeli brothers, Hillel and Yigal Yaniv, were shot and killed near Nablus in Samaria. Yigal, 20, was a volunteer with Magen David Adom. Read more

Another life saved, thanks to a defibrillator.

A few weeks ago, Irina Kogan (64) from a small town in the Golan Heights was on her way home when suddenly she suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed in the street. Passersby dialed Magen David Adom’s 101 hotline, where they were instructed on how to… Read more

MDA and U.S.-based Hatzolah Air partner to provide Medevac services in Israel.

Magen David Adom and Hatzolah Air, an American aviation organization that provides emergency medical air transport, have formed a partnership that will put MDA’s flight paramedics aboard Hatzolah Air and MDA helicopters to provide medical evacuations in Israel. Hatzolah Air, headquartered in New York, operates… Read more