Magen David Adom emergency vehicles dispatched 1,444,924 times – on average, a team was dispatched every 21.8 seconds // The oldest volunteer is a 91-year-old resident of Ness Ziona
Magen David Adom has been engaged over the past year in saving lives during routine and emergency situations. On the eve of the new civil year, the organization summarizes the past year and presents its main activities in numbers.
In 2024, MDA celebrated 94 years of operation, and according to the organization's data, its medics and paramedics were dispatched 1,444,924 times to incidents using over 2,650 mobile intensive care units, ambulances, emergency motorcycles, and rapid response vehicles across the country. On average, a call is received at the 101 hotline every 8.6 seconds, and the average response time is just 3 seconds.
Eli Bin, MDA Director-General:
"During 2024, Magen David Adom continued advancing technologically and growing with the assistance of generous donors from Israel and around the world. This was alongside providing world-class emergency medical services and collecting blood donations for hospitals and the IDF during routine times and during the wars that continue to affect our state. Approximately 37,500 volunteers and employees of the organization worked over the past year for the health of the residents of Israel, day and night, by air, sea, and land, on Shabbat and holidays, in summer and winter, with dedication and great compassion, with professionalism, and most importantly – from the heart.
"In the past year, we also had to contend with bereavement, which claimed the lives of our finest volunteers and employees who fell in battles defending the state in the north and south during their military service. Our teams continued to work under fire and at the risk of their lives, with bravery and courage, to save lives in the best possible way. In 2025, we will continue to do everything in our power and spare no effort for the health of the citizens of Israel."
Summary of the year in numbers:
MDA operates with approximately 37,500 volunteers, employees, National Service participants, and Civil Service personnel, including about 15,000 youth volunteers. In addition, approximately 18,000 "Life Guardians" operate within MDA. MDA volunteers contributed over 4.7 million hours of volunteering. The average age of MDA volunteers is 26. The oldest volunteer is a 91-year-old resident of Ness Ziona, and the youngest is a 14-year-old.
Magen David Adom operates 206 stations and response points across the country. Over 2,650 mobile intensive care units (MICUs), ambulances, medicycles, and unique vehicles are active nationwide. These include 312 rapid response vehicles, of which 82 are electric, 77 4x4 vehicles, including 25 intensive care units, 17 ATVs, 24 mass-casualty event vehicles, and 42 trailers equipped for mass-casualty events. Additionally, 15 medical supervisor vehicles, 3 Unimog vehicles, 3 intensive care buses, and 52 armored ambulances, intensive care units, blood donation vehicles, and command vehicles.
There are 576 medicycles, of which 72 are heavy medicycles, and 193 electric bicycles. In the Sea of Galilee, MDA operates an intensive care sea ambulance, and along the Eilat shores, an MDA sea ambulance operates, responding to 77 incidents. MDA's unique ECMO unit, in collaboration with Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, treated 30 patients, of whom 10 were connected to heart-lung machines as part of resuscitation efforts in the field.
In 2024, MDA emergency vehicles were dispatched 1,444,924 times, meaning that, on average, a team was dispatched every 21.8 seconds. In road accidents across the country, MDA medics and paramedics provided medical care to 67,859 injured individuals. 16,666 pregnant women were transported to hospitals, of whom 1,156 gave birth with the assistance of MDA teams at home or en route to the hospital. During the swimming season, MDA EMTs and paramedics provided medical care to 366 adults and children rescued from the sea, pools, and other water sources after drowning.
Approximately 500,000 men and women completed first aid and CPR courses in 17,000 training sessions across the country in the past year. Of these, 60,000 participated in free first aid courses conducted by MDA in shelters and protected spaces as part of its public service during the Iron Swords war. MDA's Medical Division certified 243 new paramedics over the past year. 720 youth volunteers were trained to handle mass-casualty events, and 780 teenagers were certified as first aid instructors.
As part of the lessons learned from October 7, 2023, MDA's Operations Division initiated the "Magen Project" this year, aimed at preparing the civilian front for emergencies.
Within this project, over 15,000 civilians, including members of emergency response teams, municipal employees, inspectors, and others, were trained to provide initial medical care. Participants, including 880 doctors and paramedics, were equipped by MDA with medical kits and will be able to provide initial care in situations where communities are cut off due to natural disasters, wars, terrorist infiltrations, and similar events.
Magen David Adom, in cooperation with the Israeli Midwives Association, launched the "Opening Pathways" project, through which professional midwives were equipped with medical kits by MDA and dispatched alongside intensive care units to assist women in labor. In the first stage of the project, 48 midwives from northern Israel joined and have already assisted pregnant women in giving birth. Many more midwives from other parts of the country are expected to join the project in 2025.
