HEMDA - Where Tel Aviv high school students study chemistry and physics

• State of the art equipment and facilities.
• Teachers, mostly scientists with PhDs  who do their own research as well as teach.
• Teachers and students all working together. ( Although when observed you wonder why they are arguing?  but it is science they are discussing).  Through discussion comes innovation.
• Teachers have a 40 hour, 11 month work schedule.  
• There is a spirit there similar to a ball game in Winslow.  Motivation & enthusiasm.

Spring is coming to Tel Aviv.






 

Every man for himself parking.

Statue, but a typical thinking pose :)

At HEMDA
Physics students preparing for
exams.  There was no teacher
in the room ( he had 2-3 rooms
going on at the same time, reviewing) but these guys were BUSY. 

 Students are comfortable at HEMDA. :)

 Equipment galore. Chemistry and physics.

 All classrooms are laboratories.

 Teachers have small offices where they can work or meet.


And Dr. Tehilla Ben-Gai, director of HEMDA and a motivating force!

 Biggest periodical table ever- with samples of items made from these elements.

My neighborhood...

My apartment...

and front yard lol.

A brief walkabout... subtitled birds & dogs oh and food.

First, saw nothing of the solar eclipse.  Nothing.  oh well, England did!

This morning I went in search of nature.  I'm going to visit some schools in Tel Aviv soon, so needed to get a better sense of location, so I packed my bag and set off.

Actually, the day started out at 5 am with a whistle.  You know that whistle some people have as an alert on cell phones?  Yeah, so at 5 am I searched the apartment for all phones, ipads.  Nope. It was a bird.  Outside.  So it is spring here too.  

Israel is on the bird migration route from Europe to Africa.  Every year at least 500 million birds pass through Israel twice.  Tel Aviv is not the best place to bird watch, as there are not tons of green spaces, but I did what I could.

  This is the SEA not a bird.

These are pigeons.  They are birds.

 Time out for the Carmel Market.  BUSY on a Friday.  You see, this is the start of the weekend.  The work week runs Sunday-Thursday.  Tonight at sundown begins the sabbath.

 bread

 juice

 fruit

 candy

 more fruit

 tomatoes

 SPICES

 more tomatoes ( some of the best I've ever had)

 SPICES- za' atar

 fruit

 Yarmulkes

 olives

 IDK- looked like a bachelorette shopping party drinking wine?????

DOGS

DOGS-  this one broke my heart.  A rescue group has these dogs out every Friday for adoption.  This owner dropped off this dog he had owned for 8 years.  The dog was shaking he was so scared.  Then apparently he nipped a little girl, hence the muzzle.  I approached him slowly 'cause he was so nervous and he cuddled right up with me. :(   bad people... I checked with my apartment rules and no dogs- otherwise this one would be right here.  

 MORE dawgs... :(

 ART

 BIRDS!

 wave runner!  not a bird.