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Saved from death as a baby, saving lives today.

One night 24 years ago when he was one year old, Moshe Biton’s parents came into his room to find him unable to breathe and his skin turned completely blue. They rushed him to the MDA station near their home in Hatzor HaGlilit in northern… Read more

Holocaust survivors’ ambulance brings new Jew into the world.

Holocaust survivors Shimon Lifshitz and Susanna Augusta Lifshitz made aliyah from Belgium eight months ago and decided to donate an ambulance to Magen David Adom. Their grandson, Avraham Applebaum, a senior EMT volunteer for MDA, now drives this ambulance. “My grandparents deliberated for a long… Read more

MDA wins first place for VR training app.

The Jerusalem Post — The ninth conference on digital learning technologies at HIT — Holon Institute of Technology was held this year with the understanding that a period of global crisis can also be an opportunity to improve processes and maximize business profits. About 20… Read more

Three-year old girl survives 50-foot fall.

While hiking with her father and brother, a 3-year-old girl fell into a 50-foot well in northern Israel. Her father subsequently fell after the ladder installed in the well broke when he attempted to climb down to rescue his daughter. The man told his 5-year-old… Read more

Paramedics train using new simulation center.

Arutz Sheva/Israel National News — Even for veteran paramedics, few scenarios are as daunting as encountering medical emergencies they rarely see or executing new techniques in the field. But for 23 senior paramedics with Magen David Adom (MDA), a leading Israeli EMS organization, these situations… Read more

He collapsed in his kayak; MDA saved his life.

When Danny Atali, 66, suffered a heart attack in Ashdod Yam Park and collapsed in his kayak, his friends, park personnel, and MDA did all the right things to save his life. MDA EMT Yarin Hayat alerted the park worker where the defibrillator was, opened… Read more

MDA’s national Human Milk Bank saves preemies.

Israel’s Channel 11 aired “White Gold,” featuring MDA’s Sussman Family Foundation Human Milk Bank. In this three-minute excerpt, meet one mother who says, “ten minutes of my time [a day] provides quite a few meals for needy babies.” Einat Zeifa provides about 7.5… Read more

MDA resuscitates four men in less than one hour.

On Wednesday, June 15, dozens of calls for medical help were made to Israel’s 101 emergency hotline in one hour. Of these, four were about men who suffered cardiac arrest and were resuscitated within minutes of each other. Each of them survived, thanks to fast… Read more

New York Times reports on MDA’s missile-proof blood center.

New York Times Reporter Isabel Kershner visited the Marcus National Blood Services Center shortly after its dedication in May. Read her report about the building designed to protect Israel’s strategic blood reserves from missile, chemical, and biological attack, as well… Read more

Against all odds, stroke victim survives.

A year ago, Avi Danny, 47, had a major stroke due to an aneurism. Neither the MDA team who arrived at the scene nor the doctors in the hospital he was taken to had high hopes for his survival. But after two weeks in a… Read more