American Friends of Magen David Adom

And he would call them and speak to them and give them chizuk, encouragement.

You know, or then when there was one of the wars broke out in the 70s, I'd go out for like Mogadishu and raise money for them on the street with canisters.

And I went to Nazi rallies in Chicago.

Wow.

There were no commercial tourniquets up there, so the students made them out of belts and socks.

And in at least one case, a boy video called his father, Dvir Klein, while Klein was simultaneously scrambling the IDF and Magen David ambulance, and the father talked him through how to build one.

Magen David Adam.

That's what I said.

Ramim Ridge, October.

Magen David Adams National Command Truck.

Dutch DAF chassis assembled in England to MDA's own specification.

Sixteen meters long, four meters high, thirty-two tons.

A generator with a nine hundred liter fuel tank.

Cameras on a mast that rises to nineteen meters, so about sixty feet, which is six stories of vision over an incident.

A debrief room, an external strategic command post, and functioning MDA call centers inside it.

Call centers.

They put the dispatch floor in the truck.

Um, because I was, in a strange way, in Dublin, but in the middle of it at the same time.

Um, because I'm chairman of an organization called Magen David Adom Ireland, MDA Ireland for short.

MDA in Israel is the, uh, emergency medical response service.

It's the service that provides the ambulances.

It provi-- It, it looks after the Israeli Blood Service.

In Israel, Magen David Adom is a non-government voluntary body.

It is paid some funds by the Israeli government for the medical services that it provides, but it also, um, is very dependent on funds raised both within Israel and globally by way of charitable donations.

So MDA Ireland is a charitable, charitable body.