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As an Arab majority city in the Ottoman era, Jaffa became known starting from the 19th century for its expansive orchards and fruits, including its namesake Jaffa orange. It was also a Palestinian hub for journalism in Mandatory Palestine in the 20th century, where Falastin and Al-Difa' newspapers were established.
THE STORY OF JAFFA. 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.
To this day, the Palestinians of Jaffa still live under the dual threat of systematic depopulation and colonial gentrification. A once thriving center of Arab modernity, Jaffa has since become a monument of loss, and a memory of what could have been.
Jaffa was the most advanced city in Palestine in the development of its commercial, banking, fishing, and agriculture industries.
According to the United Nations’ 1947 resolution on the partition of Palestine (see United Nations Resolution 181), Jaffa was meant to remain an Arab enclave within the Jewish state.
Jaffa served as a storage center for merchant shipping and as the port of entry for Christian and Jewish pilgrims. Ahmad ibn Ṭūlūn, the ruler of Egypt and Palestine, fortified Jaffa in 878. However, its security and trade were endangered from time to time by riots and anarchy.
Before Israel was created, Jaffa served as Palestine’s commercial hub. Its storied port has been used since Biblical times as a gateway to the Mediterranean Sea. In the 19th and early 20th...
Jaffa was the largest city in historic Palestine during the years of the British mandate, with a population of more than 80,000 Palestinians in addition to the 40,000 persons living in the towns and villages in its immediate vicinity.
Did you know before 1948, Palestine's city of Jaffa exported fruits to Europe?Lost Cities of Palestine shows rarely seen archival footage of forgotten Palest...
Long before the new eccentric city of glass deluged the horizon, Jaffa, its adjacent southern city of sandstone, had been the primary coastal urban centre for cross-regional trade and cosmopolitan life in 19th- and early 20th-century Palestine.