When the Mufti stated: This is the place of the Temple of Solomon and Miriam Adelson Donates 150 Life-Saving Ambucycles to United Hatzalah and What's My Line? - Robert Mitchum; Martin Gabel [panel] (Mar 3, 1957) and Do All of Us Understand Coronavirus News Coverage?By Hana Levi Julian
Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.
When the Mufti stated: This is the place of the Temple of Solomon
In the guide to the visitor to Al-Haram-a-Sharif, which was published in 1924, there are instructions for the visit and also the determination of the Mufti according to which there is "without a doubt a complete temple."
A guide for visitors to al-Haram-a-Sharif, the Temple Mount, is being offered for auction today (Tuesday) at the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem. Dr. Dotan Goren, a researcher on the Land of Israel and the Holy Places, talks about the surprising discovery hidden between the lines of the guide.
Dr. Goren says that this is the first edition in English published by the Supreme Muslim Council in 1924. About a century ago, the council was established (December 20, 1921) and was headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Among other things, the council was entrusted with the management of the Muslim endowments and supervised what was happening on the Temple Mount. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Supreme Muslim Council published the Visitor's Guide to the Temple Mount, accompanied by photographs and instructions for visitors and historical reviews of the main buildings in the compound and especially the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which said
Dr. Goren notes that "this is a black-on-white written testimony that refutes the Muslim narrative, which since 1967 has denied any Jewish affiliation with the Temple Mount and claims that the Jewish Temple is false and imaginary."
He added that "in addition, guidelines were published in the guide prohibiting the use of the Temple Mount compound for the custom of sand, in which it was explicitly written to the attention of the guests that the entire Temple Mount compound (al-Haram a-Sharif) is sacred to Muslims."
"Visitors are especially forbidden to smoke in it and bring dogs in. The entrance to the Temple Mount for non-Muslims is arranged for a fee and at known times on weekdays between 7:30 - 11:30, except during prayer hours, Fridays and Muslim holidays. It should be noted that at that time the main entrance Visitors to the Temple Mount had at the Chain Gate (Bab a-Silsala), where they were required to pay the entrance fee. "
Following these remarks, Dr. Goren offers a solution to the danger to life lurking both for visitors to the Temple Mount who use the Ma'ale HaMugrabim Bridge and for women to pray with the help of the Western Wall plaza, a danger that results from leaving the temporary wooden bridge for too many years.
According to him, those who come to the Temple Mount can be directed to the entrance through the chain gate. "As stated, this gate was the main entrance to the Temple Mount during the late Ottoman and Mandate periods, and is preceded by a guide to the Temple Mount visitor.
Miriam Adelson Donates 150 Life-Saving Ambucycles to United Hatzalah
A new unit of 150 life-saving ambucycles was dedicated by United Hatzalah president and founder Eli Beer with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion and benefactor Dr. Miriam Adelson on Tuesday.
The unit is named after Dr. Adelson and her late husband, Sheldon, one of Israel's greatest philanthropists before he died in January.
Following remarks at Safra Square, outside Jerusalem City Hall, Hatzalah volunteers celebrated with a convoy around Jerusalem's Old City.
"I understand the magic of riding a motorcycle. It is clear that it is necessary for you and for the sake of everyone who you are helping. In your hands, these two-wheeled vehicles will work for the good of all. They will be used for the greatest good and the ultimate mitzvah of saving lives," Adelson said.
Quoting the Talmud, she added, "Anyone who saves a single life, it is as if they have saved an entire world. With that simple statement, our sages of old summed up the entirety of Judaism throughout the generations."
After the festivities, the ambucycles were dispatched to different places around Israel.
Ambucycles play a key role in Hatzalah's success because responding medics can avoid traffic congestion, road closures, debris or parking issues. When there's an emergency and every second counts, the response time of an ambucycle medic averages 90 seconds.
According to United Hatzalah, each ambucycle responds to approximately 40 calls per month, roughly 480 calls a year. About 25 percent of all calls (120 annually) are deemed critical lifesaving situations. Each ambucycle is on the road responding to emergencies for at least three years and therefore will respond to around 1,440 calls and save 360 lives.
What's My Line? - Robert Mitchum; Martin Gabel [panel] (Mar 3, 1957)
MYSTERY GUEST: Robert Mitchum [film actor]
PANEL: Arlene Francis, Martin Gabel, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf
Do All of Us Understand Coronavirus News Coverage?
Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 A yeshiva elementary school
Since COVID-19 emerged as a global crisis, the news has been dominated by graphs and terms like "R numbers" and "exponential growth," referring to the rate of spread of the disease.
To what extent does the average adult understand the quantitative information appearing in the news?
The results of a new study paint a gloomy picture: When asked about "math in the news" items presented to them, even people who had taken advanced mathematics classes in high school did not typically figure everything out, but obtained only an average "grade" of 72/100.
But these advanced learners make up a small minority of high school graduates. Those who took only the mandatory level of high school math – as over 50% of high school graduates with official Israeli matriculation certificates tend to do – correctly interpreted much fewer items on average (54/100).
Results were even more troubling for participants who had not passed all the examinations required for the official state certificate. Participants in this group obtained an average "grade" of 44/100 – suggesting they didn't understand over half of the items in the questionnaire.
This latter group represents about 45 percent of the total cohort of 17-year-olds in Israel in recent years.
These findings raise concern about the relevance of school mathematics to the real-life needs of most learners and call attention to the importance of providing all learners with mathematics literacy. (ed: emphasis added)
The findings emerged from a new study on mathematical media literacy among a representative sample of 439 Israeli adults.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology during the first wave of COVID-19 cases in Israel (March-April 2020).
The researchers were surprised to find a factor that appears to be even more strongly associated with the participants' understanding of mathematical information in the news, than the level of math they had taken at school: the participants' self-perceptions as being "good at math" and the extent they find mathematics useful and interesting.
The finding suggests that being afraid of math prevents people from engaging with it when they need it – even if they had learned it at school.
"These results seem to show that school mathematics, especially in its high levels, may prepare adults to understand critical information important for their well-being, such as at a time of global pandemic.
"However, they also indicate that negative attitudes towards math may significantly hinder adults' engagement with such information," said the study's lead author, Prof. Einat Heyd-Metzuyanim.
"Our findings should trigger some soul-searching in the mathematics education field," she added.
"After all, the goal of learning mathematics, for most of the public, is to be able to deal with mathematical information in their daily lives. We should therefore make sure that high-school graduates leave school with both the cognitive tools for processing mathematical information around them, and the attitudes and dispositions that would allow them to do so."
