2025 YIR: MDA Ambulance Dedicated in Lubin’s Memory

A large crowd of friends, relatives, and community leaders gathered in the sanctuary at Congregation Ariel on Sunday, Jan. 5, to dedicate an ambulance for Magen David Adom (MDA) in the memory of Rose Lubin.

Howard Zavell had heard about Rose – who died while guarding the Shalem police station in Jerusalem during an attack on Nov. 6, 2023 – and, despite living in Chicago, decided hers was a story that had to be celebrated in Dunwoody, at a place that meant so much to Rose. He had already helped donate several ambulances, but something about this was special.

“Her story touched me differently than anything else since Oct. 7,” Zavell said, speaking at the event. “My wife, Anne, right away, upon us talking about her, said to me, ‘You’re going to donate an ambulance to her, I can tell.’”

Rabbi Binyomin Friedman commented that it was both a sad and celebratory moment.

“We’re happy that she’s being remembered in this way, and that her name will be perpetuated through all the good deeds that will be performed by this ambulance, all the lives that will be saved, and all the generations that will have come from it,” he said. “We’re just sorry it had to bear her name at this time in her life.”