The Impromptu Committee is Magen David Adom’s only Ladies Committee.
Impromptu is delighted to have raised enough funds to purchase its own ambulance which will be dedicated in Israel in November 2005. The Mission will take place from 27th November-1st December 2005 and promises to be exciting, informative, action packed and of course FUN.
- Visit an MDA station
- See a Despatch Centre
- See the Ambulances with the GPS system
- Meet the Paramedics and Volunteers
- Visit the MDA Blood Centre at Tel Hashomer
- Visit an air-force base and hear about “The Intifada, Propaganda & Reality”
- Meet personalities in the Art World
- Meet women on Check Point Watch
- Visit Yad Vashem, Yitzhak Rabin’s grave at the Herzl Cemetery
- Tour of the Old City
- Visit the Knesset
We offer an open invitation to all ladies to join us and see first hand the enormous impact Magen David Adom plays in saving lives in Israel on a daily basis regardless of race or religion.
For further information, please contact the London Office address.
On 23rd May 2005, the Impromptu MDA Ladies Committee held a very successful Literary Lunch with writer Fay Weldon as their guest speaker. The event took place with the kind permission of Jilla Yousseffi at her beautiful home in Finchley where over 100 ladies enjoyed a buffet lunch followed by a question and answer session with Fay Weldon.
She spoke with great humour and honesty about her life and work over the past 30 years as copywriter, novelist and playwright, managing to hold the audience spellbound for over forty minutes. To complete the event, the Committee were further privileged to have Marsha Gladstone, mother of Yoni Dresner who spoke of the tragic events surrounding the death of her son in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem some two years earlier and of the important role Magen David Adom played in assisting her family at that time. Her words deeply affected everyone and underlined the critical importance of raising funds for Magen David Adom.
The Committee were delighted to have raised over £10,000 from this latest event which has helped turn their “white van” into a fully fledged ambulance, to be dedicated in Israel in November. The Literary Lunch was also used as an opportunity to launch the MDA Book Club which will meet for the first time in the Autumn.
On 23rd February, 50 people visited the Turner, Whistler and Monet exhibition with a lecture by one of the top art critics at the Tate Gallery. They also had lunch at the Tate.