A Jew and a Muslim praying by a Jewish Israeli ambulance: Test your visual literacy

Image: “Jewish paramedic Avraham Mintz faces Jerusalem, his prayer shawl hanging off his shoulders. Muslim paramedic Zoher Abu Jama kneels facing Mecca, his prayer rug unfurled before him.”

CNN’s story extolling the image above of a Muslim and a Jew praying in opposite directions (one toward Mecca and one toward Jerusalem) beside an ambulance marked with the Star of David and portraying the action as “one of many inspiring moments in the coronavirus crisis” would have made more sense to me in what it is trying to project had it shown…