Talk:Tipat Halav

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 21:16, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Israel's Tipat Halav well-baby care centers literally mean "a drop of milk"?

• Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRPL8kZEqps/ "He fought deadly unpasteurized milk in the 1890s, saved thousands of children, brought the idea to Palestine — and the French phrase La Goutte de Lait ('A drop of milk') became Tipat Halav."

• • ALT1: ... that Tipat Halav, the Israeli national network of 900 well-baby care centers, derives its name from "une goutte de lait" (literally, "a drop of milk"), a line in a poem by Alfred de Musset?
  • Source: (number of centers) "Knesset Health C'ttee hears of jumble of authorities, responsibilities of baby clinics" "Over a decade ago, the Health Ministry divided up the 900 well-baby (tipat halav) clinics around the country so that some were owned and run by the four public health funds, others by the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Municipalities, and the rest by the ministry." (derivation of namefrom French) "Why are Israeli infant clinics called Tipat Halav - 'a drop of milk'", "But the name 'Tipat Khalav' didn't come from Hebrew.... The phrase came from a poem by Alfred de Musset; The key line reads: 'Une goutte de lait à l'enfant nouveau-né' / 'a drop of milk for the newborn child'"
  • ALT2 ... that between 1927 and 1948, the Tipat Halav network of well-baby care centers cut infant mortality rates in pre-state Israel by more than half? **Source: "PREVENTIVE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR MOTHERS AND INFANTS: "TIPAT HALAV" (A DROP OF MILK) IN ISRAEL: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE" "Preventive medical services for mothers and infants or "Tipat Halav" (Mother & Child clinics) - as they have been known since the earliest times in Eretz Yisrael (pre-statehood Israel) - have been based over many years on a tradition of quality service that assures public health in Israel.... In the years before statehood in 1948, mortality rates in Eretz Yisrael were falling. Infant mortality, had declined to 48 deaths per 1,000 live births, was one of the world's lowest rates. It was a significant improvement, since in 1927, for example, infant mortality in Eretz Yisrael had reached 108 per 1,000 live births - one of the world's highest rates at the time."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Darius Holland and Template:Did you know nominations/Horvat Sumaqa
  • Comment: QPQ double dose to follow

Created by Alansohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 60 past nominations.

Alansohn (talk) 19:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC).

• New enough. Long enough. Copyright violations unlikely per Earwig. Well written (with a tendency for long sentences). QPQs done. Reliable citations throughout for the most part. I'm not sure about citing an Instagram post by Elon Gilad for the hooks. See: Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Questionable_sources.
• Alansohn, can you find another source for the quote? Or propose a hook that can be supported by reliable sources? Hybernator (talk) 02:02, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Hybernator, thanks for the review. I'll work on an alternate source. Alansohn (talk) 07:28, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
    • Hybernator, added ALT2 with source, while I work on a different source for ALT1. Alansohn (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

• Alansohn, ALT2 is fine. Should it be "... by more than half?"/"by over 50%" instead of "in half"?
• You could also use this source (Research Gate) as a citation for where "a drop of milk" appears in the article. Hybernator (talk) 00:59, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

• Hybernator, I tweaked the wording of ALT2. Yes, the source mentions "drop of milk", which works for ALT0, but not ALT1. I leave it up to you. Alansohn (talk) 19:26, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• . New enough. Long enough. Well written. Well sourced. Copyright violations unlikely per Earwig. Hook (ALT2) is cited to a reliable source, and interesting. QPQs done. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 04:53, 15 December 2025 (UTC)