THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Weizmann Scientists Study Quakes

REHOVOT — While
most of us think about ear-
thquakes only when their
disastrous consequences hit
• the headlines, a group of
Weizmann Institute scien-
tists and technicians give
the movements of our rest-
▪ less planet their 24-hour-
a-day, year-round atten-
tion.
In the institute's Bloch
Geophysical Observatory,
located deep in the interior
of Amram Mountain at a
site close to King Solomon's
• mines and just north of Is-
l's
of Eilat, techni-
..ns keep vigil at a bank of
highly sophisticated listen-
* ing devices — seismomet-
ers, tiltmeters, strainmet-
ers and magnetometers.
Daily the seismological
k .
data they collect is flown to
,
Rehovot where institute
scientists in the Applied
Mathematics Department
are engaged in a range of
theoretical and practical
projects directed at under-
standing the forces which
have shaped — and con-
tinue to shape— the earth.

Friday, February 24, 1978

Israeli Letters
in Al Ahram

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CAIRO (ZINS) — For trie
first time in its history, Al
Ahram, the semi-official
Cairo daily, has published
"letters to the editor" from
Israeli citizens.

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By

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and Canada, and one
praised Egyptian President
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Shown is one of the connecting tunnels at the Weiimann Institute's Bloch
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Information from the observatory: -"Although in of two or three big ear-
super-sensitive earth- the last generation Israel thquakes per century in Is-
quake measuring in- has been quiet, seismologi- rael, so we are not by any
struments enables them cally speaking, there have means free from ear-
to keep tabs on tremors been something on the order thquake danger."
occurring thousands of
miles away and pinpoint
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By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
Jewish law prohibits em-
balming because the de-
ceased undergoes some sort
of disfigurement in the em-
balming process which is
considered to be an insult to
the dead.
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