It’s 7pm because if you compare the time zones and you add the 14 hours ahead you get 7pm.
It is used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. The yad ensures that the parchment is not touched during the reading.
<span>Authoritarian rule is best characterized as rule in which the ruling person/party has indefinite political power, which basically means that they can do whatever they want, even be tyrants, without any repercussions. </span>
