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Billy Crystal. Credit: Flickr.

Billy Crystal, FBI director to join ‘Virtual L’Chaim’ to first responders amid pandemic

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Actor Billy Crystal and FBI director Christopher Wray will be among those who will raise a glass during a Zoom cocktail event on Wednesday in salute to those on the front lines in combating...
A health-care worker on the frontlines of the battle against the coronavirus (COVID-19), April 2020. Credit: Courtesy.

‘Care with a Prayer’ offers chance to support health-care workers worldwide

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Momentum, previously known as the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, launched “Care With a Prayer,” a global campaign to pray for health-care workers fighting the coronavirus. Anyone can visit www.carewithaprayer.org to request the name of a doctor, nurse,...
The site of a crane collapse in Rishon Letzion on April 22, 2020. Credit: United Hatzalah.

Relief in Rishon Letzion as fears of mass casualties in crane collapse prove baseless

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Emergency services in Rishon Letzion scrambled on Wednesday morning following reports that multiple people had been trapped beneath the wreckage of a collapsed construction crane, however, paramedics and EMTs from Magen David Adom and...
NCSY Hatzalah Rescue participants in Israel receive medallions celebrating their first “lives saved.” Credit: NCSY.

NCSY Hatzalah Rescue: Training the next generation of emergency responders

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Sam Blech, 16, and Rivkah Zigman, also 16, both campers on NCSY Hatzalah Rescue, were volunteering as part of their summer program with a United Hatzalah ambulance crew in Tel Aviv. At approximately 7...
“First 7 Minutes” training was led by Magen David Adom senior paramedic Raphael Herbst, who has responded to numerous terror attacks in Israel. Credit: MDA.

Magen David Adom conducts counter-terror and emergency-response training in Milwaukee

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Following recent armed attacks against religious and public institutions in the United States, including attacks at synagogues, churches, schools and colleges, Magen David Adom, Israel’s national EMS service, conducted three days of terrorism- and...