A top-level delegation of Israel’s Magen David Adom will go to Geneva this week for the 25th quadrennial conference of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). But their status will be only as observers. The ICRC has refused, for political reasons, to recognize the MDA, which is Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross. Israel has repeatedly sought full membership in the ICRC, which recognized the Moslem Red Crescent shortly after the Red Cross was established in 1907. Israel’s first application was submitted in 1949.
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