(Wall Street Journal) Ben Cohen - Yoav Halper runs a company that imports emergency vehicles to Israel, which usually means shipping ambulances from the U.S. by ocean freighter. But Magen David Adom, Israel's national ambulance and paramedic organization, told him they needed as many ambulances as they could get as fast as they could get them. Instead of a journey that normally lasts several months, 17 ambulances donated by Americans were airlifted to Israel on four different cargo flights in less than a week. American Friends of Magen David Adom typically sends about 75 ambulances a year. Donors have sponsored 148 in the two weeks since the conflict began. They're Chevrolet vans built by GM in Wentzville, Mo. and then sent to the Medix Specialty Vehicles facility in Elkhart, Ind., where the empty vehicle is stuffed with cabinets for equipment and medicine, an oxygen system, a communications center, heating, air conditioning, emergency lighting and sirens.
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