MDA

WATCH: IDF, Soroka, Joseftal hospitals carry out first-ever ECMO patient evacuation

In a first-of-its-kind operation, the Israel Air Force and medical teams from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals airlifted a young woman connected to an ECMO life-support system from Eilat to Beersheba.

|ByJAMES GENN
A military helicopter and medical staff from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals evacuate a patient connected to an ECMO machine, February 14, 2026.
MDA operates 653 motorcycles

MDA expands Jerusalem emergency response with 22 new haredi female medics

"This is an important volunteering effort that will enable us to strengthen the rapid and professional medical response to the community in Jerusalem and its surroundings," Eli Bin said.

|ByASHER SMITH
The aftermath of a bus crashing into a store in Ramat Gan, February 6, 2026.

WATCH: Woman hospitalized after bus crashes into store in Ramat Gan, injuring 11

A bus crashed into a building in Ramat Gan on Friday morning, leaving a woman in critical condition. MDA paramedics rushed her to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital for treatment.

|ByJAMES GENN
MDA emergency vehicles were dispatched 1,383,026 times in 2025

Two men murdered in Shuafat refugee camp shooting near Jerusalem

"We noticed that they were unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing,” MDA paramedics recalled of the scene. “We began performing advanced CPR and administering medication.

|BySAM HALPERN

MDA hero: We’re here for each and every person who is sick or injured

"We’re all human, and a little girl who’s been injured isn’t something to which you can turn a blind eye. There’s something about it that penetrates you and touches your soul."

OCTOBER 31, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA paramedic officers get out of an ambulance a man to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center emergency and trauma care who was moderately injured when stabbed in a terrorist attack by the Neve Daniel junction, near Jerusalem on March 31, 2022.

Lives aren't just saved in a hospital. They're saved in the ambulance, too

“I’m proud of the Blood Services staff, who haven’t stopped working for a single moment and haven’t rested since the morning of October 7."

OCTOBER 31, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA Blood Services hosts blood donations surrounding October 7

Two killed from shrapnel in recent rocket barrage to North

Some 25 rockets were fired at northern Israel, the IDF said following the sirens that sounded in the Haifa bayside suburbs area.

OCTOBER 31, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treat a wounded person who was hit by shrapnel from an intercepted Hezbollah rocket in northern Israel, October 31, 2024.

'The country was burning, and I was watching it happen'

"That Shabbat will stay with me for the rest of my life."

OCTOBER 30, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA’s Joint National Command Center on October 7

'I’m proud of my country and MDA. I’m proud to have saved lives'

"Don’t ever forget: there’s only one State of Israel; the People of Israel live, and together we will win."

OCTOBER 30, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Yaakov at the entrance to a kibbutz in the Gaza border area.

'Since when do people shoot at ambulances?' MDA medic recalls October 7 atrocities

"I tried to understand the circumstances of the shooting. No one was aware at that point that terrorists had infiltrated and had launched a killing spree."

OCTOBER 30, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA's Dani Shtarkman and Peter Lasnik

MDA medics from Rahat 'stayed as long as they were needed' on October 7

"Those who don the MDA uniform are like family to me, and I will always choose to come whenever I’m needed, no matter how far I have to travel."

OCTOBER 30, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA medics from the Rahat Station that saved lives on October 7

MDA Milk Bank feeds babies whose mothers were murdered or kidnapped

MDA collects the milk from the donor mothers and brings them to the Milk Bank. There, the milk is treated in a laboratory.

OCTOBER 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The MDA Milk Bank laboratory checks donated breast milk before giving it to babies in need.

MDA medic reveals horrors she saw on October 7

Alissa and her team worked a very long shift on October 7, which only ended after sunrise the next day.

OCTOBER 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Alissa providing urgent care at the scene

'He fought with EMTs; I fought to keep victims alive'

“The bullets whistled above my head, but I couldn’t leave the wounded.”

OCTOBER 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MDA paramedic officers get out of an ambulance a man to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center emergency and trauma care who was moderately injured when stabbed in a terrorist attack by the Neve Daniel junction, near Jerusalem on March 31, 2022.