Blood

MDA deploys an ambulance every 22 seconds through 2025, with more than 1 million calls

According to their 2025 statistics report, MDA emergency vehicles were dispatched 1,383,026 times.

Magen David Adom vehicles.
Yair Lifshitz

Adding Light Through Giving Blood

 Gene therapy restores hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness. Illustration.

Children born with deadly immune flaw get powerful new gene therapy option

Illustration of a blood test.

IDF rolls out innovative blood test to spot heart attack risk years in advance


Why is COVID causing vascular damage? Israeli study offers answers

TAU researchers identify 5 of the 29 proteins in virus that attack blood vessels.

COVID-19 is seen in a blood vessel (Illustrative).

Religious-Zionist rabbis ban students from donating blood due to form options

A number of religious-Zionist yeshivas have banned their students from donating blood due to a form that reads 'parent 1 and parent 2'

The IDF holds a blood drive in light of the coronavirus crisis

Technion researchers cure mice of diabetes in novel trial

New research investigates the use of an autograft of muscle cells engineered to take in sugar at increased rates in mice with type 2 diabetes. 

 The implanted construct: the engineered muscle fibers (in red) express the GLUT4 (in green)

Horowitz donates blood after Israel repeals ban on gay blood donation

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, a gay man, donated blood at the Magen David Adom compound in Jerusalem after the ban was repealed.

 Israel's Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz is seen giving blood at the Magen David Adom compound in Jerusalem, on October 25, 2021.

Do you try not to sneeze? Disturbing reasons why you must stop

Doctors are asking the public to stop this dangerous habit as it can cause permanent damage to the nose, ears, lungs and even the brain.

 Sneezing

MDA shares ‘out-of-the-box’ COVID blood donation solution 

Magen David Adom has been responsible for all of Israel’s blood supply, including for the IDF, since 1950.

 Magen David Adom presents at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference

Meet the woman who froze solid - and survived

"Her body was completely cold and stiff, like a piece of meat right out of the freezer."

 Ice storm (illustrative)

Pool of water near Dead Sea turns blood red, authorities investigating

Geologists believe the red color of the pool near the Dead Sea may be caused by algae, iron oxide or added chemicals.

 The bright red color of the waters of Lake Motro between the main Ounianga Lakes of northern Chad, Central Africa

Annual Yom Kippur blood drive expected to collect hundreds of donations

Zichron Ya'acov has been hosting an annual blood drive on Yom Kippur eve for around 25 years.

 Magen David Adom personnel (Israel's national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service) at a blood donation drive in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel

Officer X: Blood of mysterious IDF officer analyzed in US

The blood test found that Officer X had normal concentrations of a regularly taken prescription medication, but the results for a second drug were inconclusive. 

An Israeli soldier walks next to a military vehicle at a mobile artillery unit location on the Israeli side by the Israel border with Gaza