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  2. Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    The name of the unified city was Tel Aviv until 19 August 1950, when it was renamed as Tel Aviv–Yafo in order to preserve the historical name Jaffa. [95] The population of Jaffa prior to the unification was estimated as 40,000, out of them 5,000 Arabs, [98] and most of the others new olim. [94]

  3. Tel Aviv - Wikipedia

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    Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...

  4. Hebraization of Palestinian place names - Wikipedia

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    One of the motivating factors behind members of the Yishuv to apply Hebrew names to old Arabic names, despite attempts to the contrary by the RGS Committee for Names, [25] was the belief by historical geographers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, that many Arabic place-names were mere "corruptions" of older Hebrew names [30] (e.g. Khirbet Shifat ...

  5. Arab localities in Israel - Wikipedia

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    18,500 Arabs live in the Tel Aviv District, which has a total population of 1,318,300. [ 10 ] 16,000 of them live in Jaffa , where they make up around a third of the population. In 2019 the population of Tel Aviv - Jaffa was 89.9% Jewish, and 4.5% Arab; among Arabs, 82.8% were Muslim, 16.4% were Christian, and 0.8% were Druze .

  6. Abu Kabir - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic name, Abu Kabir, is still used by the now largely Hebrew-speaking population. [24] [25] The Tel Aviv Municipality offered Prof. Heinrich Mendelssohn, Director of the Biological-Pedagogical Institute, the option of moving the institute to Abu Kabir, and it was moved into a structure originally planned as a hospital. [26]

  7. How did the Amsterdam attacks unfold?

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    On match day. On match day over 200 Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters took to the streets of Amsterdam some were filmed tearing down Palestinian flags and others chanted anti-Palestinian slogans.

  8. Palestinian militants claim Tel Aviv bombing that wounded 1 - AOL

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    Hamas and another Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility on Monday for what appeared to be a failed bombing attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv that killed the attacker and wounded a ...

  9. List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 ...

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    During the 1947–1949 Palestine war, or the Nakba, around 400 Palestinian Arab towns and villages were forcibly depopulated, with a majority being destroyed and left uninhabitable. [1] [2] Today these locations are all in Israel; many of the locations were repopulated by Jewish immigrants, with their place names replaced with Hebrew place names.