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President Reuven Rivlin this week paid tribute to the best of Israel�s national and civil volunteers, including some from Magen David Adom.

Among those cited for their service was MDA volunteer Avigdor Drexsler, who was in the first group of national service volunteers in MDA. Today, as an EMT and certified ambulance driver, he continues to volunteer in addition to responding to calls in his free time on one of MDA�s medicycles.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)