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Magen David Adom Rescue Efforts In The Ukraine
Dear Friends, I come to you PS – The Boca-Delray Community Event has been
this month to share with you rescheduled to November 10th 2022 at the Broken Sound Club.
the incredible lifesaving efforts This will be the first time we are holding the event since February
how Magen David Adom is 2020. Please save the date and mark your calendars! We cannot
aiding the crisis in the Ukraine wait to see your smiling faces! For more information, please call
as part of our partnership with 561.835.0510 or email boca-delray@afmda.org.
the International Red Cross,
and as part of the State of
Israel’s official humanitarian
mission.
What’s Happening:
• MDA has sent 4 armored the hotline to get information about medical services, assistance
ambulances to Ukraine. After being flown to Poland, they are finding missing relatives, and how to access help for the other
now being driven into Ukraine. Each is inscribed, “For the People day-to-day challenges of suddenly finding themselves in another
of Ukraine.” See photos below. More non-armored ambulances country and dealing with a language they don’t necessarily speak.
are on their way. I hope this makes you feel proud to support one of the State
• MDA sent a delegation of Russian and Ukrainian-speaking of Israel’s official representatives during this conflict as so many
paramedics to Poland to treat injured Ukrainians at the border. of us are watching and wanting to know what we can do to help.
They are based in a field clinic in Kishinev, Moldova, as well as Magen David Adom Ukraine Emergency Appeal has been
in a field hospital in Mostyska, Ukraine. We are also establishing set up by American Friends of Magen David Adom.
a training center for doctors and medical students to provide This fund supports an array of services, including:
medical and humanitarian aid on the ground. • EMTs and paramedics working near the conflict
• One of MDA’s mobile command and control centers has • Services include shipping medical equipment and supplies
been lent to Chabad International in Kfar Chabad. They are using to MDA personnel on the Ukrainian border to aid people fleeing
the vehicle and its state-of-the-art dispatch technology to help their homes
coordinate evacuation plans and provide assistance to Jews in • Services for Ukrainians seeking temporary or permanent
Ukraine. refuge in Israel
• MDA, in its role as a Red Cross affiliate, has set up a special • Equipment for EMTs and paramedics assisting with medical
hotline to assist Ukrainian refugees arriving in Israel. Nearly care and hospital transport in Israel
3,000 have already landed — most are not Jewish. The hotline is To donate to this effort today send your check with appeal
staffed by Russian and Ukrainian-speaking volunteers in MDA’s notated Magen David Adom Ukraine Emergency Appeal
National Command Center in Kiryat Ono. The refugees can use payable to: We AIM To Please
American Friends of Magen David Adom “SULLY”
Attn: Yishai Mizrahi
4371 Northlake Blvd. #361 Driven in Class and Comfort
Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33410 At Reasonable Rates
For more information about the lifesaving work of Magen $59 to FLL and
David Adom or to get more involved, please call Yishai at PBI Airports
561.571.6112 or email at ymizrahi@afmda.org. Large Groups and Statewide
On behalf of the People of Israel, and the 27,000 paramedics, Transport
EMT’s and emergency personnel working on the front lines A LLIA N T 561-716-0926
saving lives, we thank you for your support, especially during TRANSPORT Text or Call for Service
this time of crisis.
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