Anyone remember Mad Cow Disease?
Magen David worker take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem.
The delegation is in Israel as part of a joint project with the World Health Organization (WHO) to upgrade the emergency medical system and emergency preparedness system in Moldova.
MDA leverages its experience responding to terrorism, rockets, and other disasters to train American Hatzalah teams, while Israeli Hatzalah organizations form integral part of Magen David Adom’s roster of 27,000 EMTs and paramedics.
The point of the exercise was to exchange organizational knowledge on how to deal with emergency situations.
The serological survey began today in Kiryat Ya’arim, as children from Israel’s ultra-orthodox sector returned to school for a new year of studies.
Working for MDA for three years, Daniel Yaso treated a wide variety of cases and thousands of patients — yet had never delivered a baby, until he delivered two!
Six ambulances, two MICUs, a command vehicle and other designated emergency vehicles will be deployed in the field.
The work day at MDA's Logistics Center started about two months ago and has not stopped since, even for one minute.
Menachem said that after being a patient himself his “outlook is completely different.”
The wounded are IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade who were in Jerusalem for their swearing in ceremony.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dvir Schnerb was certified to be an MDA EMT on Tuesday, less than two weeks after a terrorist bomb in southern Samaria killed his sister and left him seriously injured.
Listen to the first call to MDA's emergency line on Sunday morning during the Ariel Junction attack.
Asher Elmaliach was stabbed in the heart by a terrorist.
Five people were injured. Rescue teams are searching for more victims.
Paramedics were called to the Mikveh on Shabbat morning.
The rioters attacked a group of IDF soldiers.
Dozens of people have been trapped and injured.
A Jewish woman and child were attacked by an Arab male in Jerusalem on Shavuot.
By JNi.Media
Until now, EMTs were instructed to treat all the victims of an attack first, before the attacker, Not anymore...
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel continues to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip no matter if Hamas is in a state of war or truce against the Jewish state.
On Monday, three Jewish shepherds were taken to the hospital after being beaten by a gang of Arabs and foreign anarchists near Susiya. One of the shepherds still requires hospitalization. He has a serious head injury and was beaten all over his body. The second shepherd was released overnight. His jaw, and nearly all his […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A gang of Arabs and anarchists attacked Jewish shepherds, leaving them with severe head and face injuries.
What initially appeared to be a bank robbery gone wrong, turned out to be a revenge attack on the bank staff.
In what has become a daily occurrence, Palestinians are routinely throwing rocks at Magen David Adom ambulances, smashing windshields and seriously endangering the MDA medical crews.
Update from Magen David Adom: MDA has gone to level 3 (highest level of prepardeness) in Israel's South, and the rest of the country has gone to MDA level 2...
On Thursday evening Arabs launched a massive rock attack on Israeli cars driving on Highway 60, near Ofra. Numerous cars were damaged and one Israeli was injured. MDA services treated the injured Israeli on the spot and then evacuated him to a hospital. IDF forces are searching the area for the rock throwers.
At 9:05 AM, a barrage of 2 rockets hit Sderot, and hit two factory grounds in the industrial park. One of the rockets, hit a building. This is the second this year that factory buildings was hit. MDA treated one person with light injuries.
“Wherever there are Israelis in trouble…we are there to help them,” said Yoni Yagodovsky, a spokesman for Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA), told The Jewish Press.
Walla News reports that a 64-year-old woman was run over by a car Thursday morning, Yom HaShoah, on King Shaul Street in Be'er Sheva, as she was standing at attention during the memorial siren. She was trapped, unconscious, under the car that hit her and was rescued by MDA teams. The woman was rushed to […]
By dvora
In recent months, I’ve been contacted repeatedly regarding news reports that Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical response and national blood service, is removing its logo from ambulances in Judea and Samaria, or ending all operations there entirely. It’s been a frustrating time because the reports haven’t been accurate, and the misrepresentations have created a backlash that’s bad for Israel – and for all Israelis. As an Israeli living in the Judean mountain region of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, I want to set the record straight.
This should serve as a cautionary note to Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) service, which so eagerly cooperates with the Palestinian Red Crescent, to the point of transferring to the latter the medical authority in the district of Samaria. The folks you're in bed with might just shoot you. JTA reports that the goalie of […]
Many Palestinians in Judea and Samaria turn to the IDF and to Israeli medical emergency services to receive medical attention. Whether ill or wounded, local Arabs receive immediate life-saving medical treatment regardless of existing security tensions, and with no pre-requisites.
Back in September 2011, in an editorial titled "Magen David Adom: No Time to Blink," we expressed our dismay over reports in several Israeli newspapers that Israel's national ambulance service – its version of the American Red Cross – was in the process of removing the display of the Magen David symbol on its ambulances operating over the Green Line as a sop to the International Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent, which are averse to the display of the Jewish symbol there.