Rescue Service Trains Israelis to Respond to Terror Attacks
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Earlier this week, Israeli security forces arrested the Palestinian who killed Dafna Meir, a Jewish woman in the community of Otniel, in front of three of her six children.
The attacker, Morad Bader Abdullah Adais, was just 15 years old. The fatal stabbing is only one of the most recent attacks Israelis have suffered through since last September.
The latest wave of Palestinian terror attacks has killed 29 Israelis and wounded nearly 300. Most of those terror attacks have been stabbings or shootings.
Magen David Adom is often one of the first responders to an attack. As Israel's national emergency rescue service, MDA has begun to train people on the street on how to treat a terror victim at the scene.
"We decided to do this a little bit way from the regular training that we do, due to current escalation that happened in Israel and this type of violence that we are experiencing," Yoni Yagodovsky, MDA's director of international relations, explained.
"And there's a high interest in the Israeli public to know what to do and to know how to assist others," he said.
More than 13,000 volunteers supplement MDA's 1,200 paid staff.
