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Arab ambulance drivers, like Arab zookeepers, have learned how to navigate Jerusalem's many borderlines. "I'm suspicious-looking in so many ways," laughs Nasser Izhiman, a volunteer driver and medic for the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city...
...ADMITTED. Magen David Adom, Israeli aid society, as a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, ending decades of isolation from the humanitarian group; in Geneva. Since 1949, the Israeli agency had been excluded for refusing to wear the Movement's official red cross or red crescent symbols because of their religious connotations. Last week the international group adopted a new official emblem, the neutral red crystal. It also amended rules excluding non-sovereign states from membership, enabling the Palestine Red Crescent Society to join...
...afternoon in the Israeli village of Netiv Ha'asara, the familiar notes of conflict - periodic incoming rocket fire and the alerts that attend it, the more sustained outgoing artillery barrages - have fallen silent. But the peace won't last. A few hours later, loudspeakers emit the booming call - "shachar adom" [red dawn] - that warns residents a rocket has been launched from Gaza. They have 20 seconds to get to their bomb shelters. "It's a routine," says Pnina, 59. "Unfortunately, we are getting used...
...impressive display put on at the combine helped Ara launch himself past Ivy players like Brown’s Adom Crew—the conference player of the year and a first-team All-American who was selected in the fifth round and 51st overall by the Columbus Crew—and Yale’s Jay Alberts, who is only the fifth player in conference history to garner first-team All-Ivy honors all four years and was taken in the fourth round and 47th overall by the Kansas City Wizards...
Joining him on the field will be three other Ivy League players who were selected for the program—Penn’s Matt Haefner, Yale’s Jay Alberts and Brown’s Adom Crew...