Magen David Adom is made up of “selfless, generous, heroic brave people who literally put their lives on the line to save others,” Emily Austin, emcee of an event for supporters in Philadelphia, told JNS.

Hilel Jonathan Jolodenco recalled the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, as one that started out rather normally. He heard alarms at 6:30 a.m. in Sderot, in the south of Israel, where he lives and works as a parademic and the city’s head of ambulance services for Magen David Adom. But he wasn’t ruffled.
“I think I just got used to it—the ‘emergency normality,’” the 34-year-old, originally from Argentina, told JNS. “There’s always an emergency.”
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