Jaffa - Wikipedia
The first electric company in the British Mandate of Palestine, although owned by Jewish shareholders, had been named the Jaffa Electric Company. In 1923, both Jaffa and Tel Aviv had begun a rapid process of wired electrification through a joint grid.
Jaffa - يافا (יפו) - Palestine Remembered
Jaffa was first founded by the Canaanites and they used to call it Yafi (gorgeous). Arabs called Jaffa Yafa, and some geographic Arabic books referred it by Yefeh too. al-'Awja River terminates 9 km north of Jaffa, and Rubin River (also known by …
Until Return Issue 2: Yafa Up To 1948 - al-awdapalestine.org
Yafa became the main sea entrance to Palestine, overlooking the Palestinian fertile coastal plateau, that is famous for its orange groves. Yafa’s History: Our Arab Canaanite grandfathers founded the city in 3000 B.C. as a small town.
Jaffa (Joppa) - Life in the Holy Land
JAFFA, or rather Yâfa, is one of the oldest seaports in the world, and its name has been preserved almost unchanged from the earliest times— . . . Yapho, “the beautiful.” . . .
The story of Jaffa - Visualizing Palestine
In 1945, the city of Jaffa was the administrative capital of the Jaffa sub-district of Palestine. It had a population of 94,310, of whom 66,310 were Palestinian, and 28,000 were Jewish. On 12 May 1948, during the Nakba, most of the Palestinian population of Jaffa was forcibly displaced by Zionist military forces.
Old Jaffa - Wikipedia
Old Jaffa [yafa ha'atiká] – Ancient Yafo; Arabic: يافا العتيقة, Arabic pronunciation: [jaː.faː al.ʕa.tiː.qa] – Ancient Jaffa or يافا القديمة, Arabic pronunciation: [jaː.faː al.qa.diː.ma] – Old Jaffa) is a neighborhood of Israel and the oldest part of Jaffa.
Yaffa, Israel History - Promised Land Museum
Yaffa (or Jaffa, or Yafo in Hebrew) is an ancient port city that, prior to the Nakba, was the largest city in Palestine. These photos from the early 1900s show Yaffa as a growing commercial city with train tracks, ships, and automobiles.
Jaffa - Palestine Primer
Jaffa rose to prominence in the course of the nineteenth century, in the first place on account of its oranges. It was the main port for people arriving from abroad and the transit point on the main road to Jerusalem.
Encyclopedia Of The Palestinians: Breifly, Jaffa History - Jaffa - يافا ...
Nov 12, 2000 · Along with ACRE, Jaffa was one of Palestine's main two seaports until the twentieth century. It was a trade city of major importance, as well as the traditional point of arrival for first pilgrims and later Jewish immigrants.
Jaffa: The Rise and Fall of an Agrarian City | Institute for Palestine ...
Sep 20, 2020 · In the 1920s and 30s, numerous new commercial and industrial sectors emerged in Jaffa. The city had turned into the central hub for Palestine’s cosmopolitan urban culture. These developments, however, did not hinder the status of citriculture.