The current tense situation in the Middle East has brought a wave of offers of blood and equipment for the Red Mogen David, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, Congress Emanuel Celler, chairman of the American Red Mogen Dovid, announced today. He noted, however, that blood was not being sent to Israel from America, only equipment to process blood in Israel.
Rep. Celler reported offers of ambulances and medical equipment for Israel, including the establishment of a special emergency committee in Los Angeles to aid the Red Mogen Dovid, the action of a group of 12 Chicago women to equip a blood bank in Israel and campaigns to buy ambulances for Israel by the Rebecca Charity Fund of New York and the women’s division of the American wing of the Red Mogen Dovid.
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