Tinker Bell

Test of hypersonic aircraft fails

A test flight of an experimental aircraft capable of speeding through air at 20 times the speed of sound ended prematurely Thursday morning when the arrowhead-shaped plane failed and stopped sending back real-time data to engineers and scientists who were moderating the mission.

After reaching an undisclosed sub-orbital altitude, the aircraft jettisoned from its protective cover atop the rocket, then nose-dived back toward Earth, leveled out and began to glide above the Pacific at 20 times the speed of sound, or Mach 20.

Then the trouble began.

Science do not yet know how to achieve the desired aerodynamic control during the phase of return to atmosphere in high velocity flight.

High-Mach flight in the atmosphere is virtually uncharted territory.

Links:

DARPA issues statement on failed flight of hypersonic aircraft

Test of hypersonic aircraft fails over Pacific Ocean

Haifa's Landscape

Summary:
Mount Carmel is considered a holy mountain. For millions of Baha'i believers it is the Mountain of God. In the heart of Haifa is the Baha'i World Center complex. The Baha'i gardens in it received UNESCO's recognition as World Heritage Site. The terraced gardens are one of the most popular tourist attractions in Israel. The starting point for most visitors is at Panorama promenade in beautiful Yefe-nof st., which form Haifa's hotels strip. Haifa is a city of stairs built on Mount Carmel slopes.


Mount Carmel in religious sources - The Green Mountain
Mount Carmel is considered a holy mountain since the Canaanite period to the present. Its holiness story passed from one faith to another, each changed and added its own versions. Mount Carmel is mentioned many times in the Bible as a symbol of wealth and beauty of the land of Israel: Nickname to a fertile place, full of vineyards and fruit trees in "and I will bring you to the land of Mount Carmel, to eat its fruit and good" - Jeremiah B, G,. Synonymous with beauty and ornamentation in "Your head on you as Mount Carmel" - Song of Songs 7,6,. Mount Carmel is considered one of the five important mountains in Judaism, to which is directed the prayer with the verse "I lift my eyes unto the hills whence cometh my help". These are Mount Moriah, Mount Sinai, Mount Tabor, Mount Hermon and Mount Carmel. For five million Baha'i believers Mount Carmel is the 'mountain of God', and it takes up a similar position to that of Mecca in Islam and Jerusalem in Judaism. Islam nickname for Mount Carmel is ‘The Green Mountain'.

Influence of religion on the landscape of Mount Carmel - The Baha'i Gardens
Elijah's Cave at the point where Mount Carmel descend to the sea is one the holy places in Land of Israel since the Biblical period. Carmelite monks built a monastery above Elijah's Cave at the top of the mount in the 12th century which still remains. Century ago the Greek-Orthodox church built a convent in Carmel Center with a large walled garden. This convent too was for many years the highest point in the area. The Bahá'ís are prominent and influential minority in Iran which suffer greatly from the Khomeini regime. Mount Carmel is considered a sacred mountain to the Baha'i religion. In the heart of Haifa is the Baha'i World Center complex. There stand the golden dome over the grave of the founder of the faith, and around it the terraces gardens and buildings of the center. These are now a pilgrimage site for the faithful Baha'is and a visiting attraction to other tourists. Some of the Baha'i religion principles are beauty, perfection and design that promote them in their faith. The center was built so that it will preserve the straight lines. Everything is planned to the last detail. The Baha'i religion world center in Haifa and Acre received UNESCO's recognition as a World Heritage Site. The declaration state that the Baha'i sites represent ‘unique universal values​' and therefore they deserve to be included in the list of cultural heritage of the world.

Tourism in Haifa - Panorama promenade
The Baha'i Gardens have become one of the most important tourist centers in Israel and receive millions of visitors each year. The starting point for most visitors is at Panorama promenade at top of the Baha'i gardens in beautiful Yefe-nof street. Apart from visiting the gardens the promenade serve for the additional purposes: A. Observation point - The panoramic scenery of Haifa Bay is breath taking and everyone will find it difficult to stand up to its charm. On a clear day you can see the snowy head of Mount Hermon and the white limestone rocks of Rosh Hanikra. Grooms and brides come every day to be photographed against the scenic background in wedding clothes. B. Walking route - During all hours of the day walkers and runners of all ages can be viewed on the promenade. The Promenade and Yefe-nof street upon which it is built are, in the absence of other suitable routes in the area, the main place for this essential physical activity. C. Meeting place - Along the promenade stand few 4 and 5 stars hotels. In the promenade itself there are many benches, used as meeting places for different population groups, from mothers with strollers to dog lovers. Today the completed Panorama Promenade ends in a bridge from Panorama Center to Its direct continuation along Yefe-nof street. The scenery in this street section match that of the promenade. It is actually used as its continuation. This is thanks to the straight and plain topography, the gardens and hotels along the street, and the hill in the upper side which is the highest point in the Carmel parallel to Haifa bay. Most of Panorama promenade travelers begin their route on this stretch of Yefe-nof. Some apartment owners there rent their apartments and rooms to tourists who come to visit Haifa. Two major public gardens stretch along this beautiful street: Rishonim garden along the upper side of the street with a magical walking trail and Allenby Garden where there is a historical observation terrace to the bay. In this section of this street there are two hotels: Crowne Plaza and Ganei-Dan. It is part of Haifa's hotels strips, which also includes the hotels Dan-Carmel, Nof, and Dan-Panorama.

Residents of Haifa - City of stairs
In the Corner of Yefe-nof and Carmel Center start ‘The Road of Thousand Stairs' leading through the neighborhoods of the city from to down town. The trip along the stairs allows to visit the inhabited parts of the city and their diverse population. Haifa is a city of stairs. Built on Mount Carmel slopes, Haifa is layered on it as a complex urban texture which responds to the shape of the mountain. One of the wonderful results of this special structure of Haifa is that in the stairs streets you can find another world, often hidden from the ordinary visitor: Countless staircases connect between buildings and blocks, yards and streets, to create together a world parallel to Haifa's street world. Who that time is in his hand is invited to discover the staircases all over the city. He will find hidden passages between the blocks, passages that will take him into half-covered pieces of nature or a series of courtyards which ends in a narrow entrance to a parallel street, higher or lower than the street where he have been. The staircases that run between the buildings reveal not just yards with vegetation, but also parts of the residents' life. This unique environmental texture is specially prominent in the neighborhoods of ‘Historic Carmel' around Carmel Center, which Yefe-nof street with the concentration of hotels and holiday apartments in Haifa is part of. The unique character of these older neighborhoods in Haifa's Carmel is largely determined by the combination of terraced, simple low buildings on the edge of wadis, with abundant vegetation in the streets and yards.

Fuel - Change your Fueler

Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11 year journey around the world to find solutions to America's addiction to oil. A shrinking economy, a failing auto industry, rampant unemployment, an out-of-control national debt, and an insatiable demand for energy weigh heavily on all of us. Fuel shows us the way out of the mess we're in by explaining how to replace every drop of oil we now use, while creating green jobs and keeping our money here at home. The film never dwells on the negative, but instead shows us the easy solutions already within our reach.

Things to Come

The story of a hundred year way that starts in 1940 and lasts so long no one remembers why it began. After a plague kills most of the society, small groups survive and finally reconnect to rebuild, until it grows so prosperous a new uprising begins again progress, claiming it is what starts wars in the first place.

It seems H.G Wells the author was a prophetic. He did predict a war would erupt in 1940, just a few months after world war two actually started in 1939.

Middle East speech of Obama and 1967 borders

Obama addressed his speech of the 'Arab Spring' to Egypt and the entire Arab world, but the many phrases about the commitment of the United tates to Israel's security made it clear that the Holy Land is in the center of his vision about the region.

The reference of the U.S. president to the return of Israel to its 1967 borders was not intended to Israeli ears, nor Palestinian, but rather to the Egyptians.

This key phrase is one of the last attempts of the U.S. government to halt the deterioration in relations between the Egyptian and Israelis, which are the result of regime change in Egypt.

It was intended to say that despite the dramatic changes in the region, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, by which Israel returned to the 1967 lines, is still one of the cornerstones of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

At the end of government transformation process in Egypt, which will occur throughout the year, it is expected that the regime there will be much more radical Muslim, and use any pretext, particularly about mistreated Palestinians, to cancel the peace treaty with Israel.

The current Egyptian transition government, still holding to the politcal principles of the previous regime, listened closely to Obama's speech, and was quick to announce after the speech that the peace agreement with Israel is one of the pillars of Egypt's foreign relations and that there is no substitute.

The State of Israel must learn United States' will to help Israel, an issue that Obama spoke about widly in the speech, and prepare for the future.

Obama will use simultaneously the '1967 borders' concept with Israel, the Palestinians, and Egypt.

This will be the 'sophisticated key' for him for developing a sophisticated foreign policy with these three political parties, and all other political factors involved in the conflict.

But if the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians get stuck, it is likely that the Egyptians would cancel the peace agreement.

In such a case, the '1967 borders' concept will require Obama to defend the security of Israel, and send American forces to the Suez Canal.


Obama's mistake regarding Israel was that he chose to use the hot key concept of his plan, the '1967 borders', without attaching to it a simple, personal relaxing introduction. This is similar to opening fitness exercises without heating, or beginning the day without practicing some relaxation breathing.

The state of Israel was dropped due to this 'hot potato' to a process on which it has no control, the same as the political process between the years 1967 to 1973.

The absence of a clear map of Greater Israel worked always against the Zionist idea.

All Israeli politicians involved in resolving the conflict on the borders of the land held, as a result, to such abstract concepts and intangible values, that only few Israelis could understand.

Then as now, Israel remained almost entirely in the fog, not ready to face the future and prepare for it.

The map of the Human Figure of the Holy Land is designed to meet this inherent flaw.

Golden Triangle - Initial connection between the Golden Ratio and the Holy Land

The Human form of the Holy Land is personification which nature has created.

It invites to try and connect it with the precise scientific measurements of the Golden Ratio.

The form is without limbs, and the sizes and distances of its organs are different than in the human body, to one degree or another.

Therefore any attempt to apply the conventional divisions in the human body according to the Golden Ratio is impossible.


One possible way to try and bridge, however, between the natural human appearance and the scientific instrument is to use the Golden Triangle.

This classic expression of the Golden Ratio is known generally as a prism used for observing reality.

Golden Triangle appears in many known works of art.

The Golden Triangle is created via two lines that the ratio between them is the Golden Ratio.

It is an equilateral triangle with interesting features.

This triangle top angle is 36 degrees. The base angles are 72 degrees each.

Five combined Golden Triangles form the Golden Star, which symbolizes good fortune in many cultures.

The inverted triangle shape of Sinai peninsula - torso of human form of the Holy Land, invites the testing of correlation between this region and the Golden Triangle.

The top of the inverted triangle of Sinai Peninsula is facing exactly to the south.

The Continuation of the right side of this triangle is a straight line up to the Arava Valley and the Dead Sea.

The Angle formed between this line and the North-South line which touch the southern top of Sinai Peninsula is a 18-degree angle, the half top angle of the Golden Triangle.

Time Equal Amendment Second

The formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' describes a temporary combination between the psychological and objective realities.
It is a magic rose, a point of imagination. Therefore it is easy to relate its qualities to different fields: Scientific, emotional, artistic and more.

The Human mind evolution is created by leaps and sudden changes.

The internal development leaps has many names: Inspirations, enlightenments, insights and more.

A particular significance exists in preparing the soul for enlightenments in our modern society, where the motivated thinking became refined. The modern man places goals for himself by creating a central image of them in his mind, for their fulfillment step by step. A dream palace in the mind's core may produce random, unplanned creative directions of thought.

Any inspiration is created with in a short flash of time. At the same time it refutes all that existed before. Thus, it creates the need to be experienced fully for all its potential.


A. Clock

We all live by the rhythm of time. The ticking clock arranges our life. Time's concept, continuity and experience, receives attention in Philosophy and Literature. It is known nowadays, according to Relativity Theory, that there is no universal form of time. It is dependant on the subject's movement. Its sense is different from one human being to another.

In the modern novel, the difference of Time's experience between characters is, in many cases, emphasized. The literary realism pretends to describe mental states and not an outward world. Writers from the 'Stream of Consciousness' deal in length with the differences between the internal subjective sense of time and external objective time. They create worlds where the instant turns into a long time and vice versa.

Louis Carroll was an author who went to the edge of Logic in describing the subjective nature of Time. In his book 'Alice in the Wonderland' there is a passage which describes 'Time' as a personality.
Alice mocks about a clock with only one pointer as a funny object.
The Mad Hatter, offended, replies: "If you knew Time like me, you would treat him as a celebrity. He and I were once close friends. We served together the Empire in a remote army base."

Time's personality can be developed, according to Sigmund Freud's system, into Super Ego, Ego and Id.
The simple clock can be described in this way:
The slow hours' pointer is the severe Super Ego.
The tempered minutes' pointer is the restrained Ego.
The rapid seconds' pointer as the light headed Id.


B. Amendment

Mind distortions of the external Time's moves create sometimes a new perception of reality. People happen to get into situations of stress or elation where what they know is not enough for solving problems. They stop thinking according to the objective time. They look after the subjective time inside them.
The phrase: "There are moments which seems like infinity", describes it.
So does the biblical verse in Genesis chapter 9, verse 20: "Jacob worked for Rachel Seven Years, which were to him as few days".

This lack of harmony between external time and the soul's necessities can create particular thoughts. These are unclear durations, where experiences become long or short according to their contribution to the mental peace.
Slowly, the external and internal time unite again to a recovery synthesis. But the exit from the crisis can be to new unfamiliar world definitions.

The move of the internal time which searches after its reconnection to reality can be called: Amendment. ['Tikun' in Hebrew].
During the amendment process, pieces of experience move in partial chaos and create mazes, where the soul moves apparently with no way out. The soul reconstructs in this way new possibilities.
When this process is completed, the mazes turn into a new model which suggests a solution.

Amendment is a life experience for almost any modern man. All religions offer ways for amendments through study of morality, abstention or asceticism.
In Judaism, amendment is the central concept of Kabala, mystical interpretation of the Scriptures developed into a structure of spiritual values.

The amendment concept is rooted in the secular way of life through concepts such as 'amending experience', which is an event, sometime traumatic, that suggest change in thoughts and behavior.

Regularly the choice for Amendment practice is because of the desperate need of finding answers to questions of personal identity, in a permissive world where many do not know which way to choose.
Seldom, the choice of the Amendment way is for answering more focused questions.


C. Enlightenment

Sometimes, while staying deep in the amendment mazes, the external time is sensed only in the consciousness' edges. When the solution comes, it is sudden and unexpected. It is named many times: Enlightenment.

One night, sitting on bed before sleep, a question came suddenly into my mind: "What is Time"?

At that moment I paid attention also for other internal happenings: The reveries of time and the amendment process intermingled. Thinking simultaneously about inner and outer reality, an insight flashed in my mind:

The formula exists as a whole perception of reality.

It turned, for a moment, to be my magic rose. I could observe the entire universe, but only for a short time. I felt as in a rocket launched into space. I didn't have the means to preserve it. It was an immediate flash of light in the darkness and was going to fade away very soon. It created the need to be experienced fully for all its potential.

D. Integration between subjective and objective

The formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' describes an integration between the objective and subjective reality.

In the moment of enlightenment there are two entities in the mind: The initial entity which holds to the conservative past and the new born one which holds to the revolutionary future.

In true reality, there is no division of time to past, present or future. There is only one eternal situation of things and events. You cannot describe the universe just with ordinary Time.
Time is a cube and time periods are sides of that cube. People see usually only one side, which is in front of them. But in the state of enlightenment, it is possible to go around the cube and see it from behind too.

Discoveries through a flash of insight are possible in any area of human activity. Personal problems can also be solved that way. An insight in these fields can be stronger and clearer, since it deals with real characters and not abstract subjects.

From a scientific view point, according to the doctrine of the general relativity, any massive body in movement drags the space with it. Distortion like this is likely also near revolving bodies, which convolute the expanding space in their proximity. The more the body is massive, the more the phenomenon is significant.
Close to Planet Earth, the field of gravitation is strong enough to the point of convulting slightly the space.
This supposed phenomenon will stand to the tryout with a satellite experiment.


E. Interpretations of the word 'second'

The word 'second' has four meanings:

A. in Mathematics, it is the serial position after 1 and before 3.
B. in Mathematics it is also the multiplying of a number by itself.
C. in Time measurement, it is precisely 1/60 of a minute.
D. In common language it is used for describing a short and undefined time.

This multiple meaning can cause misunderstanding. It suggest the existance of a vast field of the unknown.

F. Experiencing Time Equal Amendment Second

The feeling of experiencing 'Time Equal Amendment Seond' is similar to the inner feeling that two people sense when they calibrate their clocks against each other.

Visually, this experience is like a slow motion examination of a phenomenon, for example a water drop.

Unification of the objective and subjective Time is common in works of art more than is commonly thought.

Meir Shalev, in his book 'As in few days', brings many wonderful paragraphs about the impressions of the relationship between the objective and subjective times:
Page 97: "My mother showed me the shade of the eucalyptus tree, That in its size, direction and coolness said 'nine in the morning', the red leaves of the pomegranate that said 'middle March', the tooth that tottered my mouth and said 'six years old', and the little creases in the angles her eyes, that flickered and said 'forty'.
''You see", she said, "like that you are amid the time. If they will provide you a clock you will be only near it".

A wonderful emotional depiction of the deep experience of alliance between the objective and subjective times is of a boy who observes the watchmaker in his work:
"The craftsman, a Hungarian watchmaker from the old generation, started my instructions when I was in the age of four. He promised me the right to sit beside him when he repaired wristwatches and clocks. My first happy lesson was to sit quietly, without disturbing him from his delicate repairs. To my surprise, I succeeded almost without a try, because when the craftsman worked something marvelous took place. Tremendous Love and tranquility filled the space of the workshop, and I sank in the absolute silence that surrounded him. When I concentrated in his work, the exterior silence that I sensed was reflected immediately in the inner hush. All the feelings of misfortune, the pressures and the wretchedness, dissolved."


But most of all, the formula 'Time Equal Amendment Second' is intended for adapting the idea of thinking outside the common order, for growing freedom of perception and thought that until now were not known.

These are possible through quantum uncertainty, where neurological processes and changes in perception may change the reality in the wake of every thought.

Mussolini: The Winged Despot

Mussolini displayed a keen interest in aviation as early as 1909, when, as a young socialist and journalist, he had heralded the attempts to fly across the English Channel (with Louis Blériot succeeding) as a portent of the future. He viewed flying machines as more than a novelty or the plaything of the wealthy, arguing that the airplane was destined to alter the course of history.

The stalemate of trench warfare in World War I only deepened his respect for flying. As a soldier, he marveled at the freedom and heroism of pilots, in particular Italy’s own Gabriele d’Annunzio, who made a dramatic bombing raid on Austria’s capital, Vienna. After the war, Mussolini took great delight in hobnobbing with military pilots, taking airplane rides, and promoting the advance of Italian aviation.

By 1920, Mussolini was ready to take flying lessons. R.J.B. Bosworth’s Mussolini recounts that he trained at the Arcore airfield, north of Milan, and greatly enjoyed flying, quickly learning rudimentary aerobatics. Soon after completing 18 solo flights, he survived a crash, walking away from the wrecked airplane with only minor scratches on his face and a twisted knee.

The mishap did not slow Mussolini’s rise in Italian politics. His stump speeches—delivered in a strutting, highly animated style—attracted a mass following. His muscular physique, truculent jutting jaw, and dark piercing eyes set him apart from other politicians. In 1922, Mussolini gained political control of Italy when his followers, the Blackshirts, made their highly theatrical March on Rome.

Mussolini quickly moved aviation to the forefront of his authoritarian regime. He advocated the building of a modern air force, the Regia Aeronautica, promoted airshows and record-breaking flights, and called for the design of advanced military aircraft. Winning the Schneider Trophy race in 1926 became an early benchmark for Mussolini’s air-minded regime. His Minister of Air, Italo Balbo, catapulted Italian aviation to worldwide prominence in 1933 when he led a flotilla of 25 Savoia-Marchetti SM-55 flying boats on a transatlantic flight to New York and Chicago.

Mussolini’s stylized reputation as an aviation pioneer meshed well with his larger persona as Il Duce, the dynamic leader of Italian Fascism. He appeared in various guises in official propaganda photographs—a sort of Superman at the helm of state, speaking to the masses, playing the violin, singing arias, winning at chess, and, as a man of the people, working shirtless with the peasants at harvest time. Dubbed the First Sportsman of Italy, Mussolini appeared as an avid swimmer, race car driver, equestrian, fencer, and skier. He inspired his countrymen to believe that Italy was on the cusp of greatness—a modern incarnation of the Roman Empire.

The momentum of Mussolini’s rise eventually led to military adventures: first the conquest of Ethiopia in 1935 and then intervention in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 to 1939 to support the Nationalists under General Francisco Franco. In the Spanish war, Mussolini’s son, Bruno, a pilot, flew 27 combat sorties, and the Italian press lionized him and his fellow airmen as exemplars of Italian aviation under Fascism.
Mussolini cast his lot with Nazi Germany in World War II, committing the Italian military, including the Regia Aeronautica, to a long, ruinous war. Italy now had to contend with the armed forces of Great Britain and the United States, both intent on neutralizing Italian military power in the Mediterranean and seeking unconditional surrender. The stakes could not have been higher: An Allied victory would mean the destruction of Mussolini’s regime.

Mussolini’s pre-war stress on aerial spectaculars had evoked an image of Italy as a modern air power. In reality, Italy pursued records at the expense of establishing an industrial base for aviation, and the Regia Aeronautica entered the war with few operational aircraft and minimal capacity for reinforcement. When fully mobilized, Italian aviation plants could manufacture only 200 aircraft of various types each month. Great Britain out-produced Italy by more than eight to one; the United States by at least 30 to one.

Source: Despots Aloft
By Von Hardesty
Air & Space Magazine, May 01, 2005

Fukushima Dice

One chance in a million

Personification of Israel through names and stories of places

Personification or Anthropomorphism is attributing human characteristics to animals and various objects.
This is one of the most characteristic features of the human species. Humanity attributed human qualities to many external objects from the dawn of civilizations.
Basic human actions are handling the body: clean, health care, eating, etc.. This inner reality is a means through which it is possible for anybody to examine the external reality.
Thus, even in these days a very common thinking is about external objects as having human like features.

The Zodiac is a clear example of the tremendous power of anthropomorphic features in human culture.
Sky stars map is the earliest anthropomorphic map. Man at the dawn of history connected the constellations with human experience: figures, animals, and objects.

Pagan religions had many deities which had human traits such as: jealousy, hatred and love.
For example, the gods in Greek mythology, even the important ones such as Zeus and Apollo, were described as wearing human figures.

Monotheistic religious belief see, in general, as incorrect to describe the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as human. God has completely abstract properties.
However, it is most difficult for the average person to describe God as having no character.
Bible's creation story describes that God himself created man in his image.

The term 'image of God' is very important in Judaism, but specifies only spiritual qualities.
It does not call to simulate a physical person.
It does not connect to the Zodiac, or any other transcendent anthropomorphic expression.

Classical scholars called each map created as 'image of world' [Imago Mundi]
This name reveal the complex nature of Cartography.
Maps are a way of conveying messages influenced through culture-specific symbols.
Many ancient maps visually represented the essence of knowledge and perception of their creators’ world.

Although the modern scientific mapping use sophisticated measurement methods, it is still under the command of design aesthetic.
Accurate maps represent, against their purpose, a biased interpretation.
Any map, even the most scientifically advanced, is embedded in different content, including political, under the control of those who invited the map.
at the same time, wise use of artistic tools lets spectacular design of the maps - They are seen as works of art.

Land of Israel mapping activity was done for the longest duration in history compared to other places.
Overview of maps of the Holy Land shows that Cartography focused in one direction: an effort to be as accurate as possible in describing the landscape.
Partially successful map was created at the time of the Roman empire by Ptolemy [87-150 AD].

Despite the intensive mapping there is no trace of the possibility the land’s human figure, in any map or writing, since the Bible and up to our days.

Geography educated scholars who contemplated about the Land of Israel did so out of strict religious and scientific approach, ignoring the anthropomorphic approach.
Jewish sages drew only a few drawings of the map of Israel, especially as a simple square.
Rashi drew, in the 11th century, the country as a square with mostly the boundaries of the twelve tribes. He began a tradition which lasted until the Gaon of Vilna at late 18th century.

The ancient inhabitants of Israel did not have satellite images or even proper measurement tools to accurately map the area.
On the other hand, they were much more attentive to sounds of nature, intuitions covered the gap, and they absorbed the country's anthropomorphic image.

Land of Israel studies prove that it was an ancient tradition handed down from generation to generation.
Residents of the land throughout the ages gave names for many places according to the concept of the human form of the Holy Land. Stories of the Land of Israel, among them many Bible stories, express this.
It was a popular way to express love of country, not recognized by the educated.

To Hebrew speaker who lives in Israel today its seems that names of many places, both ancient and modern, are according to the human figure of the Holy Land. Arabic speakers will surely find many more.
Local news and events are perceived often as occurred as a result of their location according to the map.

Here are some examples of ancient names and stories of places in Israel in the spirit of Israel's human figure:

Jerusalem - rear mouth area
Phrase which the city is identified more than any is: ‘Word of God from Jerusalem’.

Jaffa - lips area
‘Yaffo’, the name pronunciation in Hebrew, is very similar to ‘Pah’ [mouth]. Whale swallowed Jonah who sailed from Jaffa.

Jericho - ear area
City of Jericho was conquered by the Israelites through the blowing of trumpets which toppled the walls.

Gaza - chin area
Meaning of ‘Gaza’, 'Aza' in Hebrew, is ‘courage’. It is appropriate to the firm chin. Samson died there a hero's death.

Haifa - nose area
‘Haifa’ is very similar to the Hebrew word ‘Af’ which is ‘nose’.

Jebel Livni - heart area
‘Livni’ is very close to ‘Lev’ - the Hebrew word for ‘heart’.

Litani River - head's top area
‘Litanis’ is prayer in Latin.


Anthropomorphism is Ergonomics both simple and sophisticated.
The Human Factor finds in it full expression.
It sends branches to all areas of life.

Human Form of the Holy Land is genuine and natural personification map.
Golden Ratio is a main way to create dialouge between man and world.
You can find the Golden Ratio in the map.

Pool of used fuel is stored on an upper floor of the reactor building in Fukushima

A design flaw by the Japanese builders appear to be at the heart of the crisis at Fukushima:

The extraordinary practice of putting the pool where the highly radioactive used fuel is stored on an upper floor of the reactor building, instead of, as is normal, having it at ground level.

This has made it particularly hard for workers to try to fill it with the water needed to isolate the fuel, keep it cool and stop it from melting – and is one reason why helicopters have had to be used.

General Electric "Mark I" Boiling Water Reactors comprise five of the six installed at the stricken complex in Japan, and all those so far hit by the world's first multi-reactor nuclear disaster.

General Electric offers in its instruction manual that the pool "is not above the reactor vessel and not designed to drain to the reactor vessel".

In addition to the danger caused by the building design, there are safety problems in the Mark 1 reactor type:

In 1976, three General Electric engineers resigned because: "the effects of a loss of coolant to the reactor core had not been fully taken into account. The result could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release.

General Electric says that The Mark I meets all regulatory requirements and has performed well for over 40 years.

New reactors have been designed to be much safer, with the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), planned to be built here over the next few years, especially so.

But official documents show that the EPR will produce several times more of the radioactive iodine and caesium that would be rapidly released in an accident than do present-day reactors.

Source: The Telegraph

Unique Distortions in the Holy Land Map

The relation between any two following numbers in the Golden Ratio mathematical series is always a permanent number: 1.618…

This relation is not an integer. It is irrational. It continues into infinity with numbers after the point.

This is one of the reasons why a systematic thinking of the Golden Ratio brings the philosopher to thoughts of constant change, chaos, randomaliy, and the origins of the universe.

At the same time that it creates harmonies, the Golden Ratio creates change, restlessness, obsession, and search.

One of the attributes of people who lead life of constant change is their ability to dream and imagine.
In order to live a satisfying life it is necessary to imagine and dream, and arrange the will and thoughts according to this.

The Holy Land Map is not an exact duplicate of the human body.

The comparison between Geography and Anatomy reveal many distortions against the model of an adult human figure.

These distortions are unique and can inspire.

They can teach us a lot about ourselves.


Here are some of the distortions in the Holy Land Map:

Fetus
When following the exact lines of the landscape, the human figure which comes as a result resembles that of a fetus.
This is of course very interesting, but can be repulsive for representation.
So the final drawing is much more stately.

Jordan Valley
Jordan Valley's Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea are the eye and the ear in the map.
Together with Jordan River, these three water bodies can form an independent shape which reminds of an entire human figure, or at least a living creature with head, neck and body.
This personification drew the attention of poets and a special article is dedicated to it.
The eyes' nerves are about quarter of the brain, and the ears' bones are completed in the fetus.

Their being in the map as small organs and as an independent body is very interesting.
It gives the map its balance between right and left.

Face and Torso
The face in the map, the land between the river to the sea, is in an elongated, skinny form.
The Torso, Sinai Peninsula, is much more wide and fatty.
The face of the Holy Land Map appears in its external appearance: You can see the eye, ear, cheek, nose, mouth, etc.
The torso appears in its interior appearance: You can see the internal organ systems of the heart-lungs, liver-stomach, and intestines.
This double dissonance is according to the biblical descriptions of the fertile land–face as a narrow passing-through place, where the observation of the rules is dominant.
Sinai-desert is a vast and empty space where the direct inspiration of the Lord is much more feasible.

Hair
East Jordan Mountains, or the Red Mountains, are the hair because of their relative place and shape, and their appearance from the Jordan Valley.

These mountains create a wall between Land of Israel and Jordan deserts. They mark the path for countless scouting birds in their yearly migrations.
The biblical related story is that of Esau, twin of Jacob, the hairy guy who inherited part of this land.
The hair of the map-character is bountiful. It suggest that God is not a male nor a female but both.

Angel Rays
Hermon and Lebanon mountains have a V shape. Their snowy peaks are more then two kilometers above sea level and form between them the misty Baaka valley.

These ranges continue north to Asia Minor.
The stories about them are related to the tribe of Dan, whose land was in their southern intersection.
The meaning of the name 'Dan' in Hebrew is 'Judge'. The intersection a focal point, a logical optimum.
Abraham had his covenant with God at this point.

Energy Lines
Seven powerful energy lines cross the Land of Israel, in accord with the human body's energy lines.
The primary and strongest line is vertical, along the Jordan Valley.
The other six lines are horizontal, meridians, crossing from east to west along major mountain passes.
These seven lines reminds of the six days of the week and Shabbat, or the Divine lamp with the seven stems.
The distance along the Jordan Valley between each mountain pass is almost exactly 100 kilometers.

This precision can integrate between Healing and Geography.

Skin

The need to add colors and textures on order to enrich the character with details made it necessary to rely on the landscape as the human skin.

The primary lines-skeleton of the human shape of the Holy Land where covered with earth-skin in the Biblical sense of man's creation in the sixth day.

The Holy Land Map is a source of inspiration for the imagination. It encourages living according to dreaming.
It is a physical reality engraved in the soul to raise it from earth to heaven.

Illustration of the Great European War from a Japanese Humorous Atlas

Illustration of the Great European War, from a Humorous Atlas of the World

This map was created and published in Japan at the time of the First World War - 1914-1918.

The map focuses more on Asia then on Europe.

Russia-bear and China-pig are the most dominant nations-figures on the map.

It is amazing how the artist could give unique anthropomorphic attributes to almost any state in the old world.

List of some correlations:
China - pig
Russia - bear
India - elephant
Tibet - yak
Turkey - tiger
Egypt - woman
England - fish
Portugal - puppy
Germany - wild boar
Persia - cat

Land of Israel appears as a paw of Turkey-tiger.

Source: BibliOdyssey

Satirical Maps of the First World War

BibliOdyssey Blog post spectacular examples of Anthropomorphic maps of Europe from the First World War - 1914-1918.

All the maps shows the nations as human beings or animals fighting each other.

Holy Land Map: Anatomy - Geography Correlations

Correlations between the human body and the Geographic regions of Israel

The map of the Human Shape of the Land of Israel was created and refined through a long creation process.

The correlations between the human body and the geography of Israel were developed according to the well known principle that there is a continuous dialogue between mankind, his landscape and Nature.

This is a dynamic sublimation processes which create an image in practice.

A complicated metamorphosis process was needed to change the topographic map into a human shape.

This is naturally an infinite process of the imagination, which act to disintegrate obsolete formal images and reshape them as fresh dynamic ones.


The main tool in creating the map was comparing aerial photographs and maps with anatomy drawings and models.

Art and cultural sources were also used to expand the associations.


The level of correlation in this map is much higher then that in other anthropomorphic maps.

It is a correlation which calls for a scientific research.


Many viewers of the Holy Land Map find it difficult to identify the human figure which is hidden in the landscape.

They believe that they look at an ordinary map of the Land of Israel and do not see the human figure that has a shape parallel to that of the landscape.

The reason is the numerous Geographical details of the picture, which force the eyes to focus on them and loose the hidden view.

The aim of the map is to be clear at a first glance.

The visual features of the connection between the landscape of Israel and the human shape are intersting enough and there is no need to complicate them by Optical Illusions.


The major correlations in the Map of the Human Shape of the Holy Land are:
Head - From Mt. Hermon to Negev Plateau and from Jordan River to Mediterannean Sea
Neck – Negev Plateau
Torso – Sinai Peninsula


List of correlations:

Head - From Mt. Hermon to Negev Plateau and from Jordan River to Mediterannean Sea
Head Top - Litany River
Forhead Top - Tyre
Brain - Galillee Mountains
Eyebrow - Acre
Eye - Lake Kinneret
Nose – Carmel Mountain
Dead Sea – ear
Mouth, back - Jerusalem
Samaria – upper cheek
Judea – lower cheek
Mouth, front - Ayalon, Shorek, and Haela Streams
Lip, rear - Vadi Hevron
Lip, upper - Ayalon Stream
Lip, lower - Bsor Stream
Chin - Gaza
Chin edge - Vadi El-Arish estuary

Neck – Negev Plateau
Thyroid Gland - South Dead Sea
Nape - Arava Basin to Eilat
Trachea - Kadesh Barnea
Esophagus - Ramon Crater and Vadi Faraan
Vertebra - Vadi Zin

Torso – Sinai Peninsula
Ribs - Negev to Sinai parralel north-east to south-west mountains ranges
Heart and lungs system - Vadi El-Arish Basin
Liver and Stomach System - A-Tia Plateau
Horizontal Colon - A-Tia Cliffs
Intenstinal System - High Mountains of Sinai
Pelvis bottom - Sharm-a-Shech
Spinal column - Eilat Bay Mountains
Kidneys - Nueiba
Spinal column curve - Dahab
Sternum - Rus Sudar


There are also spiritual Geography - Anatomy correlations:

Spiritual organs around Israel
Angel Rays - Mount Hermon and Lebanon mountains
Hair - Golan and East Jordan mountains
Fear Chakra - Red Sea
Balancing Aura - Mediterannean Sea

Human Shape of the Holy Land

Human Shape of the Holy Land

God had created man in his shape.

in his spiritual life man tries to get closer to god's virtues.

At the same time, Man's body proportions are according to the Golden Ratio, the Divine Proportions.


How can the Holy Land combine this?

What is the reason for the longings to the Land of Israel in all Monotheistic cultures, longings that find their expression as a strong physical and emotional experience in religious hymns throughout history.

The connection in this hymns between the geography and the celestial is much stronger then in a simple metaphor.


The answer is amazing:

The Land of Israel has a Shape Similar to that of the Human Body

It is a physical reality with a particular relief, which engraves and raises the spirit.

The correlation between the Land of Israel and the human body is accurate.

The landscape can almost serve for anatomy lessons.

The figure includes:

The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea as faceת

The Negev Plateau as neck.

Sinai Peninsula as the torso.

It is a commentary of the Bible, Judaism and the borders of Israel.

The map is a message of social Humanism, global progress and personal freedom.


In the process of creating the map, the landscape was examined with photographs and maps, in relation to the human anatomy and other figures.

The level of correlation is much higher then that in other anthropomorphic maps.

It is a correlation which calls for a scientific examination.


The idea of the correlation human body and the geography of Israel was developed according to the principle that there is continuous dialogue between mankind and landscape, as a dynamic sublimation process, and as an image in practice.

Our Living Legacy - The Survivors’ Declaration

Our Living Legacy

The Age of Holocaust Survivors is drawing to a close. Before long no one will be left to say, "I was there, I saw, I remember what happened." All that will be left will be books of literature and research, pictures and films, and multitudinous testimony. This will be a new era. The dark inheritance of the Shoah that was so indelibly stamped on the survivors' souls and hearts will become a sacred mission imposed upon humanity.



In the spring of 1945 the great thunder of World War Two was silenced. In the eerie stillness that followed, we, the last vestiges of European Jewry emerged from the camps, the forests, and the death marches. We were ragged, bitter and orphaned, without friend or relative, without a home. We were secretly wondering in our hearts if after the Ghettos, transports, and Auschwitz we would still be capable of rekindling a spark of life within us? Could we ever work again? Love again? Would we dare begin a family again?

No, we didn’t turn into wild animals, hungering only for vengeance. This is a testament to the principles we possess as a people imbued with enduring faith in both man and Providence. We chose life. We chose to rebuild our lives, to fight for the establishment of the State of Israel, and we chose to contribute to society in Israel and in a host of other countries.

The majority of the Holocaust survivors came to Israel - the Jewish State. This was, for them, an existential imperative arising from the Holocaust. The foundations of the State of Israel were built not only on the memory of six million of our people who were murdered, but with the historical lessons of the Shoah in mind, namely that a Holocaust will never happen again. Since then, we have chosen to contend with the most resounding and perplexing issues relating to the Shoah: Why and for what purpose was the horror perpetrated? Why did the Germans single out the Jew as a danger to all humanity who must be exterminated? How is it possible that amongst the German nation, a people of such apparent intellect and modern culture who produced great artists, thinkers and teachers of ethics, murderers could arise who fashioned and operated this unprecedented killing machine?

The survivors are a pluralistic lot, with myriad opinions, convictions and doctrines. But we share a deep desire to transmit to the future generations what we lived through, and what we learned during that dark time, before we bid farewell to this life that showed us so much bitterness. It is from here, from Har HaZikaron - the Mount of Remembrance - from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, that we the survivors choose tell our story. And it is now, that we raise our collective and individual voices.

In Jewish tradition, the command to remember is absolute. But its obligation does not end with the cognitive act of memory - it must be connected to both meaning and action. Today, we for to the next generation. We pass to you as well, the fundamental lesson of Judaism, that memory must be accompanied by action of ethical and moral intent. This must be the foundation and the focus of your energies toward the creation of a better world.



“Thou shalt not murder!” This basic tenet of human morality was trumpeted to all humanity from the heights of Mount Sinai. The memory of the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their willing helpers obligates us to act on this injunction. Life is a gift of creation, its form and essence a statement of ultimate equality among all those created in God’s image. With this in mind, it would seem obvious and indisputable that this fundamental commandment obligates all of humanity. And yet it is being mockingly violated in every corner of the world. As a part of the legacy of the Shoah we must be relentless in our pursuit of solving human conflict, between states and between people, in ways that prevent unnecessary bloodshed.



For us, who experienced the degradation of cruel racism and prejudice, who were condemned to death merely for being born Jews, we call on humankind to adopt principles of equality among men and nations. Tyrannical despotism, political and religious oppression, economic deprivation designed to destroy human dignity must be seen by the world community as grave sins that will not be tolerated. There is no real alternative to coexistence between people and nations. All must be done to resolve differences not through the spilling of blood but through discussion and mediation, in the Middle East and in the entire world.

Anti-Semitism and all other forms of racism present a danger not only to Jews but also to the community of nations. These days the “new anti-Semitism” is directed simultaneously against Jews, against Israel and against Zionism. By equating these terms the danger for Jews as a whole is exacerbated. This phenomenon is also common in propaganda emanating from the Arab world. The Holocaust showed the world the extent of the destructive power of anti-Semitism and racism. Holocaust denial, as well as minimization and banalization of the Holocaust provide a means of avoiding the evident conclusions and learning the lessons for the future. We, the survivors, call upon the world to wipe out these phenomena and to combat them relentlessly.

The memory of the Shoah is contentious and dark, exposing the ugly and naked face of consummate inhumanity that threatens the very nature and stature of civilization itself. We who staggered through the valley of death, only to see how our families, our communities and our people were destroyed, did not descend into despondency and despair. Rather, we struggled to extract a message of meaning and renewed purpose for our people and for all people, namely: a message of humanity, of human decency and of human dignity.

The Holocaust, which established the standard for absolute evil, is the universal heritage of all civilized people. The lessons of the Holocaust must form the cultural code for education toward humane values, democracy, human rights, tolerance and patience, and opposition to racism and totalitarian ideologies.

From Har HaZikaron in Jerusalem the words of Rabbi Hillel need to ring out loud and clear: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow human being!”

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The Survivors' Declaration was first read out by Holocaust survivor journalist and writer- Zvi Gill at the closing ceremony of the international conference held at Yad Vashem on "The Legacy of Holocaust Survivors: The Moral and Ethical Implications for Humanity." The ceremony took place in the Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem.

Judaism and the Golden Ratio

Judaism in its initial, biblical form, emphasized the connection between man and nature.

Relationship between God, human society, individuals and Land of Israel in the Torah scrolls are woven into one system of religous order.

The Holy Land is the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Sabbatical law is one of the most important in the Torah.
It allow exile punishment to the people, to complete the Sabbatical years not been fulfilled properly.

In the Jewish holiday of Sukot people live in huts for seven days, to be close to nature.
This is to celebrate the renewed reading of the Torah from Jenesis.

In Pagan religons priests established a similar religous system, linking man's behavior to that of nature.

But the Golden Ratio, which was used widly for aesthetics, and imposing a combination of natural and religous order, almost does not appear in the entire Torah, which is full of numbers and measures.

This is in contrast to the Pyramids, Parthenon and Pantheon, with their sophisticated Golden Ratios.

These were the temples of the enemies of the Jewish people in ancient times, and enemies of the rising monotheistic belief.

Yet Judaism and early Christianity were percieved as more advanced and capble of handling human life.

How could that be without the science of Golden Ratio?

Surely the religous scholers were aware of its importance, even in times of religous persecution and times of change to urban life style.

Judaism had to adjust to modern life its tradition of man's links with natue, but instead a sparation process started.

The immense interpretations of the Torah’s laws didn’t recall the Golden Ratio or even nature's importance.

In the Diaspora, the concept of ignoring nature, and aesthetics, had become even stronger as a central motif for Jewish scholars.

The only imortant thing were moral values and the detailed religous laws.

Human Beings in their flash and blood, with their full neuances, captured the imagination.

Imagination refute formal images and recreate them as dynamic ones.

People were considered brothers and friends, illuminated by God's light and capable of moral attributes, and this was the only important thing.

They asked for Resurgence as a dynamic sublimation process, in an unceasing dialogue between Mankind, God and Earth.

How could Judaism and early Christianity detach themselves so confidently from the values of nature, science, and aesthetics?

There isn't any inherent contradiction between monotheism and the Golden Ratio.

Morality and science should co-exist as vital bricks for building society.

Truth and beauty are simply two differnet ends for the same people.

Perhaps Land of Israel, the original geographical base of Judaism and Christianity, had special properties which allowed scholars to extend their range of interpretation of human life, to a degree uncommon in the Pagan world.

The Golden Ratio

Leonardo's Human Golden Ratio

Fibonacci, the greatest Mathematician of the Middle-Ages, was a genius who reached the summits of thought and dream. He described a Mathematical series: the Golden Ratio, known also as the Divine Proportion.

In this series any number is the sum of the two previous numbers. It goes on: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610, 987, 1597, and so on.

The ratio 1.618… is a constant between each two following numbers.
It is always an irrational number without an end.

This series has fantastic qualities, mathematical and accordingly geometrical.

The occupation with the Golden Ratio is so exiting, the formed harmonies so wonderful, that it can create a full world perception.


The Golden Ratio is credited as having great influence on the development of human history and knowledge.

The architects of the pyramids in Egypt proportioned it with a Golden Ratio between the mast and the side lengths.

In the Parthenon in Athens the front is a Golden Rectangle, one of the best manifestations of the Golden Ratio.

The holiest shrine of the Roman Empire, The Pantheon, was also designed according to the Golden Ratio.

Renaissance men like Leonardo de Vinci and Michelangelo used it in their famous works of art.

Composers like Mozart, and modern artists like the architect Le-Corbusier, created their works of art using the Golden Ratio.


The importance of the Golden Ratio in Nature is even bigger.

This ratio appears in countless natural phenomena, which are amazingly different in their outlook appearance.

Few examples are:
The D.N.A shape, the numbers of leafs in plants, the sub divisions of mountains ranges and rivers, the distances between the solar system planets.


The human body organs are proportioned according to the Golden Ratio.

It appears in many of the facial, body and limbs proportions.

This was one of the foundations of Classic Hellenistic sculpture.

Le-Corbusier designed the 'Modular', a drawing of a man with Golden Ratio proportions as a base for his Architectonic plans.

The Holy Land and world culture

Gustave Dore - New Jerusalem

The people of Israel had re-established their state in Land of Israel after two thousand years of exile and the Holocaust. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that a strong Israel is a moral obligation of the free world.
But the Promised Land borders are not defined precisely in the Bible. The Bible says that God, the people of Israel, and Land of Israel, are a consolidated entity. This definition has already decided the fate of the Jewish people. But unlike the people's clear concrete rules, the boundaries were vague and undefined.

Research has determined that there are different border settings of Greater Israel. These territorial definitions were created at different times by different people, and caused absolute misunderstanding. There are also those who claim that the country's borders expand and contract as needed.

Lack of clear map has always been an obstacle for the Zionist idea. Jerusalem became abstract term, one that reflects value and is intangible, in the eyes of the Jews themselves in the Diaspora, from the destruction of the first temple and later.

In modern times, the lack of a map defining the boundaries of Greater Israel influenced crucial political decisions. For example, Sinai Peninsula was given to Egypt casually, because it was not considered by the government of Menachem Begin as part of Greater Israel.

The Catholic Church announced a few years ago, based on an Israeli scholar's research, that Mount Sinai is in the Negev plateau.


In contrast to its mental cancellation as a tangible object, the Land of Israel has always evoked the deepest feelings in all Western and Monotheistic cultures. Longings to Israel, the Holy land, find their expression as a strong physical and emotional experience in prayers, hymns, and works of religious art throughout history.

Gospel songs expressing longing to the Holy Land are major assets of Western Culture. They are earthy level of religious poetry. In them, religious and folk poetry is combined in an inseparable connection.


An American Gospel song:

I'm a Pilgrim

I am a pilgrim and a stranger,
Travelling through this wearisome land,
got a home in that yonder city, oh Lord,
and it's not, not made by hands.

I got a mother, sister and a brother,
who have gone to that sweet land.
I am determined to go and see them
oh Lord,
all over on that distant shore.

As I go down to that river of Jordan,
just to bathe my weary soul.
If I could touch but the hem of his garment,
oh Lord, well, I believe it would make me whole.


A philosophy that deals with human beings must adjust to the images of poems and continue their flow. Philosophy must learn poems honestly, because poetry is the peak of contemplation and expression, the climax of thought and dream.

The connection in this poem between the physical Jordan River and the abstract celestial city is too clear and strong then required for a simple metaphor.
It arouses questions regarding the intimacy between religious and material experiences.

The consistant relationship between the personal religious experience and the physical Holy Land calls for examining its sources.

18 * 18 ratio between Sinai Peninsula and Sea of Galilee

Sinai Peninsula dimensions are 383 by 237 kilometers.

Sea of Galilee dimensions are 21 by 13 kilometers.


Dividing the length of Sinai Peninsula with that of Sea of Galilee gives approximately the result 18:

383/21 = 18

Dividing the width of Sinai Peninsula with that of Sea of Galile gives approximately the result 18:

237/13 = 18


You can include Sea of Galilee in Sinai Peninsula 324 times:
18 * 18 = 324

324 AD is a very important year historically and religiously.
This year the global hegemony passed to the Christian Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantine Empire, whose capital was Constantinople, finally won the war this year, against the pagan Roman Empire, whose capital was Rome.

Extended Reading:

The Holy Land and the Golden Ratio - Chapter 8 - 18 * 18 ratio between Sinai Peninsula and Sea of Galilee

Sea of Galilee as Golden Rectangle

The length of Sea of Galilee according to the rectangle enclosing it is 21 kilometers.

The width of the lake is 13 kilometers.

21 and 13 are two consecutive numbers in the golden ratio series.

The result determines the astonishing fact that the Sea of Galilee dimensions are of a Golden Rectangle.

Extended reading: The Holy Land and the Golden Ratio - Chapter 7 - Sea of Galilee and the Golden Ratio

Sinai Peninsula as Golden Rectangle

The length of Sinai Peninsula according to the rectangle enclosing it is 383 kilometers.

The width of Sinai Peninsula is 237 kilometers.


The size ratio between length and width is approximately 1.616.

383/237 = 1.616


The exact relationship between two consecutive numbers of the golden ratio series is 1.618.

The result states that the dimensions of Sinai Peninsula are of a Golden Rectangle.


Extended reading: The Holy Land and the Golden Ratio - Chapter 8 - The Golden Ratio and Sinai Peninsula