Over the past year, Magen David Adom has been engaged in life-saving activities in both routine and emergency situations. As the new year begins, the organization summarizes the past year and presents the main areas of its activity in numbers.
In 2025, MDA marked 95 years of operations. According to the organization’s data, over the past year, MDA paramedics and EMTs were dispatched 1,383,026 times to incidents using thousands of mobile intensive care units, ambulances, emergency motorcycles, and rapid response vehicles throughout the country. On average, a call is received at MDA’s 101 emergency dispatch center every 7.3 seconds, and the average response time is up to 2 seconds.
Eli Bin, Director General of MDA stated, “Throughout 2025, Magen David Adom continued to advance technologically and strengthen its capabilities with the support of generous donors from Israel and around the world, while providing some of the best emergency medical services in the world and collecting blood units for hospitals and the IDF in routine times and during the war. Approximately 39,200 volunteers and employees of the organization worked over the past year for the health of Israel’s residents, day and night, in the air, at sea, and on land, on Shabbat and holidays, in summer and winter, with dedication and great compassion, professionalism, and, above all, from the heart.
“Over the past year as well, we were forced to cope with bereavement that claimed the lives of some of our finest volunteers and employees who fell in battle while defending the country in the north and south during their military service. Magen David Adom teams continued to work under fire and, while risking their lives, with bravery and courage, in order to save lives in the best possible manner. In 2026 as well, we will continue to do everything in our power and will spare no effort for the health of the citizens of the State of Israel.”
MDA Yearly Summary in Numbers
MDA has approximately 39,200 volunteers, employees, national service and civil service volunteers, including 16,500 youth volunteers. In addition, approximately 18,000 “Life Guardians” (first responders) are active with MDA. MDA volunteers contributed more than 6.3 million volunteer hours. The average age of MDA volunteers is 26.8. The oldest volunteer is a 92-year-old resident of Ness Ziona, and the youngest MDA volunteer is 14.
Magen David Adom operates 211 stations and dispatch points nationwide. Thousands of mobile intensive care units, ambulances, MDA medicycles and unique vehicles operate across the country. These include 296 rapid response vehicles (70 of them electric); 78 ambulances and MICUs (mobile intensive care units) with 4x4 drive, 17 ATVs; 25 mass-casualty incident vehicles; and 40 trailers equipped for mass-casualty events.
Additional assets include 19 medical supervisor vehicles, 3 Unimog vehicles, 5 mobile intensive care buses, 10 ambulances equipped with lifts for people with disabilities, 8 ambulances with special stretchers for bariatric patients, and 3 MICUs capable of treating two complex patients simultaneously. Eighty-two of the ambulances, mobile intensive care units, and command vehicles are bulletproof. MDA also operates three electric MiaFour vehicles, two electric vehicles for sports venues, three mobile towed dispatch points, and a mobile clinic caravan.
MDA operates 653 motorcycles, including 97 heavy motorcycles, and 150 electric bicycles. It operates a sea-ambulance intensive care vessel on the Sea of Galilee, and an MDA sea-ambulance boat operates on the beaches of Eilat. Together, they were dispatched to provide medical treatment in 154 incidents. MDA’s unique ECMO unit, operating in cooperation with Shamir–Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, provided medical treatment to 25 patients, including nine patients connected to a heart-lung machine as part of resuscitation efforts in the field.
In 2025, MDA emergency vehicles were dispatched 1,383,026 times. On average, a team was dispatched every 22.8 seconds. In traffic accidents throughout the country, MDA EMTs and paramedics provided medical treatment to 71,736 casualties, an increase of 6% compared to 2024. During the bathing season, MDA EMTs and paramedics provided medical treatment to 287 adults and children who were rescued from the sea, swimming pools, and various water sources following drowning incidents.
Approximately 500,000 men and women completed CPR and first aid courses in more than 16,500 courses nationwide over the past year. Some 15,000 were trained as part of free first aid and building emergency coordinator courses conducted by MDA in shelters and protected spaces as part of public service during the “Swords of Iron” war and Operation “Rising Lion – Am K’Lavi.”
In 2025, MDA’s Medical Division inaugurated one of the world’s most advanced training centers and certified 497 new paramedics, 105 of whom are national service participants. In addition, 780 youth volunteers were trained in mass-casualty incident response, and 732 were certified as first-aid instructors.
As part of the lessons learned from October 7, 2023, MDA’s Operations Division initiated Project Magen to prepare the civilian home front for emergencies. Since the start of the project, 16,588 civilians, including members of emergency security response teams, municipal employees, inspectors, and others, have been trained to provide initial medical care, with 1,976 trained this year alone.
All project participants, including more than 1,000 physicians and paramedics, were equipped by MDA with medical equipment and will be able to provide initial response if necessary, even in incidents involving communities cut off from access routes due to natural disasters, war, terrorist infiltration, and more.
In 2025, 15,446 pregnant women were evacuated to hospitals; 1,014 of them gave birth with the assistance of MDA teams at home or en route to the hospital. MDA operates an on-call midwives project, in which professional midwives are equipped with advanced medical equipment by MDA and dispatched with a mobile intensive care unit to assist women in advanced labor. This year, 214 midwives from across the country joined the project, helping provide medical care alongside MDA teams in dozens of obstetric emergencies and assisting in the delivery of 7 babies.
This year, 263,945 blood units were collected by MDA Blood Services teams in 8,859 blood drives held in public locations nationwide, at MDA stations, schools, workplaces, and IDF bases. Of the blood donors in 2025, 34% were women and 66% were men. A total of 44,168 donors gave blood for the first time in their lives. Of all blood units supplied by MDA Blood Services to the security forces and hospitals, 10,563 were units of whole blood. During Operation “Rising Lion,” MDA Blood Services conducted 157 blood drives and collected 16,008 blood units that were supplied to hospitals and the IDF, saving the lives of civilians, police officers, and soldiers. A total of 476 units of whole blood were provided to hospitals and the IDF. Forty percent of the blood donors during the operation were women, and 3,076 donors between June 13-24, 2025, were first-time donors.
MDA Blood Services operate 34 blood team vehicles and 16 blood donation vehicles, including two blood donation buses, each capable of collecting blood from 5 donors simultaneously. All blood donations were tested for blood type determination and infectious disease identification at MDA Blood Services laboratories located in the fortified building at the MDA Campus in Ramla, the first of its kind in the world, and supplied to all hospitals and the IDF.
MDA’s National Human Milk Bank supplied approximately 4,200 liters of breast milk over the past year to premature infants in neonatal intensive care units, newborns in hospitals, and sick infants at home who required breast milk for medical reasons.
Babies born during Operation “Rising Lion” and other special cases, such as orphans whose mothers had begun breastfeeding or wished to breastfeed and passed away after childbirth, received approximately 40 liters of breast milk. This represents an increase of approximately 20% compared to 2024. Over the past year, approximately 500 new milk donors joined the bank, all meeting the strictest medical standards to provide the safest possible milk for premature infants.
MDA’s logistics division ensured all the organization’s medical and operational needs in the field throughout the year. In 2025, 3,008 immediate response kits were prepared by division staff and volunteers and distributed to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians, enabling them to save lives even outside of work and volunteer hours. One hundred wishes were fulfilled thanks to MDA’s Wish Ambulance. In cooperation with Hatzolah-Air and Brook Aviation, MDA operates five helicopters equipped with advanced intensive care equipment, which treated and air-evacuated 324 patients and casualties to hospitals across the country.
MDA operates a unique national command-and-control truck equipped with state-of-the-art technologies, as well as three regional command-and-communications vehicles. In 2025, MDA teams participated in 425 drills, during which 723 ambulances, 306 mobile intensive care units, medicycles, mass-casualty vehicles, ATVs, Unimogs, command posts, medical supervisor vehicles, rapid response vehicles, mobile intensive care buses, MDA helicopters, and additional equipment were deployed.
Over the past year, 4,288,169 calls were received at MDA’s 101 dispatch center. On average, a 101 call is received every 7.3 seconds, with an average response time of up to 2 seconds. In 2025, MDA installed 81 public-access defibrillators in 39 communities nationwide. Since launching the public defibrillator placement project, MDA has installed 1,908 life-saving devices in hundreds of communities. In addition, MDA has installed more than 600 devices in synagogues in Jerusalem and other cities.
Written in collaboration with MDA