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News - Magen David Adom

2009-08-06 09:29:24

Israeli business leaders recently visited Indonesia even though the countries have no formal diplomatic ties, an Israeli commercial attache said.

2009-06-10 09:17:41

A religious ruling permits ultra-orthodox Jews to operate their mobile phones on the Sabbath and religious holidays with their teeth. Many of the ultra orthodox volunteers and workers at Israel's Magen David Adom emergency services work on the Sabbath and were confronted with the dilemma of how to activate their mobile phones without violating religious rules, Ynetnews.com reported. Recently, the agency began replacing workers' paging systems with modern mobile phones equipped with GPS technology that locates workers and volunteers closest to the scene of an accident, shortening the response time, the report said. MDA asked the Scientific Technology Halacha Institute to come up with a solution.

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