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• A British first aid kit from the early 1940s that
found its way to a kibbutz clinic.
• A first aid kit and Magen David Adom arm
bands, c. 1938.
• A personal first aid kit made by Kupat Holim
(with the old logo).
• A British helmet, repainted, Magen David
Adom added, for an army medic during the
1948 war.
• Training material for an army paramedic, 1954,
and US Army first aid dressings, and a
red training, open dressing with its crystalline
sulfonamide powder, a first-generation
antibiotic, 1942.
• Three paramedic kits from the 1948 war, a
WWII German battle medical kit, thick leather,
inside a few dressings, drugs, a small Polish-
German dictionary and an early, leather “Teva”
ampules holder. An early IDF battle medical
kit, originally 1944 US Army with Magen David
Adom overpainted containing battle dressings,
1942, arterial tourniquet and a small stick for
tightening a string or a torn cloth as a
makeshift tourniquet, iodine swabs and a black
eyepatch.
• An early IDF battle medical kit, originally
1942
British Army with Red Cross logo but inside
there were early IDF armbands with Magen
David Adom over a green background and
inside, the very first early design of the IDF
Medical Corp’s logo (Kibbutz Revivim).
