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American Friends of Magen David Adom - ARMDI supports the lifesaving efforts of Magen David Adom (MDA) in Israel as the tax-exempt fundraising organization representing MDA in the United States. Although it receives no government-budgeted funding, the MDA team of trained volunteer and professional medical responders is mandated by the Knesset to provide the entire nation's pre-hospital emergency medical care, including disaster, ambulance and blood services. The MDA National Blood Services Center provides 100% of the blood needs of the Israel Defense Forces and 95% of the blood needs of Israel's hospitals. AFMDA supporters built the MDA National Blood Services Center, continue to build or renovate many of MDA's emergency medical stations throughout Israel, and supply MDA with a wide range of emergency medical supplies, equipment and ambulances. Most of the 800 MDA ambulances and Mobile Intensive Care Units that are on call 24/7, logging nearly ten million miles and caring for nearly 550,000 patients annually, were donated by AFMDA.
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MAGEN DAVID ADOM WORKS IN ALL OF ISRAEL WITH ALL OF ITS POPULATION
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Rabbi Stern of Hatzolah Gush Dan addressed a gathering of MDA's Orthodox "Haredi"volunteers on the first night of Hanukka
JERUSALEM (December 20, 2011) - On Tuesday evening, December 20, a reception was held in Jerusalem to show MDA's appreciation of its Orthodox "Haredi" volunteers. At the same time, MDA announced that it is opening two new substations in the city, one in the Beit Israel neighborhood and another in the eastern quarter, to cut down response time of its medical teams. MDA Director General Eli Bin, pictured at center, in uniform, said "the new location in Beit Israel will reinforce MDA operational abilities and will be, for Haredi volunteers, a place to work in accordance with their religious guidelines and needs."
The logos on the banner to the left of MDA's
are Hachovesh Har Nof, Hatzolah Gush Dan
and Hatzolah Yerushalayim - not United Hatzolah.
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MAGEN DAVID ADOM AMBULANCES IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
Operating from 119 Emergency Medical Stations throughout Israel, from the northernmost city of Metulla to Eilat, and including 14 MDA Stations in West Bank communities, Magen David Adom ambulances continue to proudly display the “Red Star of David” or “Magen David Adom.” There has been no change in this policy. MDA ambulances have displayed the “Red Star of David” since the organization’s founding in 1930 and any rumors or allegations to the contrary are simply not true.
Every day, throughout Israel, Magen David Adom medical teams are on alert, operating nearly 900 ambulances that travel 10 million miles to care for 600,000 patients. Heart attacks, strokes, work, home and road accidents, illnesses, pregnancies and so on, in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Nahariya, Metulla, Tzfat, Jerusalem, Rehovot, Sderot, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva, Eilat, Dimona, as well as Efrat, Kiryat Arba and Ofra, MDA is SAVING LIVES IN ISRAEL.
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AFMDA MOURNS EVA MAMES, MICHIGAN REGION PRESIDENT
American Friends of Magen David Adom is deeply saddened by the loss of Eva Mames, President of AFMDA’s Dr. John J. Mames Chapter – Michigan Region, named for her late husband. Dr. and Mrs. Mames were both Holocaust survivors and they founded the Michigan chapter after Israel’s Six Day War in 1967. Mrs. Mames worked tirelessly for decades to raise funds for ambulances, medical equipment and stations in Israel – and inspired others to do the same. Always modest about her achievements on behalf of AFMDA, Mrs. Mames and her incredible dedication to the cause will be greatly missed by everyone in the organization.
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MAYOR BLOOMBERG, WITH HIS SISTER MARJORIE TIVEN
DEDICATES MDA FACILITY IN MEMORY OF THEIR FATHER |
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JERUSALEM (October 23, 2011) – American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) celebrated the dedication of the William H. Bloomberg MDA Jerusalem Station in Jerusalem today in the presence of many dignitaries including New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg was responsible for donating the lead gift to dedicate the new, landmark Magen David Adom Station in Israel’s capital in memory of his father. In the nearly five decades since William Henry Bloomberg passed away, the same year in which the previous MDA station in Jerusalem was opened, Jerusalem’s population has grown and diversified many fold, and Magen David Adom’s Jerusalem Region has become the busiest of all MDA regions.
In his comments at the dedication ceremony the Mayor said, “My family was attracted to Magen David Adom because of its spirit of volunteerism and its unwavering commitment to treat all people equally regardless of race or religion,” he said. “Today is a great day for Magen David Adom, its supporters, my family and the people of Jerusalem.”
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104 YEAR OLD DONATES AMBULANCE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY
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PARKLAND, FL (October 16, 2011) - When Bernie Nenner’s 104th birthday was approaching, he decided to celebrate by donating a lifesaving ambulance to Magen David Adom and the People of Israel.
An overflowing crowd of Aston Gardens at Parkland Commons Community residents attended the dedication ceremony before the ambulance, bearing the names of Frances and Bernard Nenner on the door, was being shipped to Israel.
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"You read the papers about what is going on in that country and how they get in trouble all the time and are attacked on all sides. I wanted to help and I know how they need the ambulances," Nenner said. "I thought it was the best way to spend my money."
Nenner’s daughter Elissa Silverberg, 76, says donating an ambulance is something her father has wanted to do for a few years. “I am happy that he feels that charitable. I knew he would eventually do it because he is very concerned with what’s happening in Israel,’’ said Silverberg.
Nenner also has a son Ronald, 82, along with four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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