With the establishment of the state of Israel, some of the society's most important members and volunteers were among those setting up the medical corps of the Israel Defense Forces. Magen David Adom became the medical service of the Haganah, and MDA members administered first aid alongside the Haganah fighters throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Photographs from that period show Magen David Adom volunteers in official uniforms. During that period, MDA gave first-aid training to the Haganah and the auxiliary police and medical aid to the wounded.ĭuring World War II, MDA worked within the general framework of Israel's Civil Defense Organization, as an arm of the Jewish Legion of the British Forces.
In the years that followed, the society grew, especially in the wake of a second wave of riots that broke out in April 1936 and lasted until the beginning of 1939. At the time, the society's resources consisted of a small truck converted into an ambulance and several dozen dedicated volunteers. Its founding members were physicians, members of the Haganah and private citizens. In 1935, a national organization was formed to provide medical services to the public and the Haganah. MDA's first home was a dilapidated hut on the corner of Rothschild and Nahalat Benyamin streets in what was then the center of town.Ī second MDA group formed in Haifa in 1931 and a third in Jerusalem in 1934. It was founded in Tel Aviv on June 7, 1930, by a group of seven Israeli doctors, as a one-room emergency medical service. Magen David Adom was officially chartered as a result of the murderous riots of 1929, when farm and urban settlements - totaling some 170,000 of the country's Jewish population - were attacked by the Arab population, and were found to be lacking in even the most elementary first aid services. A Magen David Adom organization was organized to aid both the Jewish Legion and the settlers in Palestine. There was great concern that the Jewish Legion of Palestine, otherwise known as the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers of the British Army during World War I, who were fighting to liberate Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule, needed medical help. The first seeds of Magen David Adom in Israel were planted at a meeting held in Philadelphia in October 1918, attended by David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Henrietta Szold. Magen David Adom was officially granted membership in 2006 to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It operates according to the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Magen David Adom (MDA), literally the "Red Star of David," is Israel's official ambulance serivce, blood services and disaster rescue agency. Magen David Adom: Table of Contents| Cooperation with USA| Admitted into Red Cross
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