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  2. Old Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    The Old City was damaged by the Napoleonic wars and an earthquake in 1837. [1] When the wall of Jaffa, which was rebuilt in the early 19th century, was dismantled between 1878 and 1888 to allow expansion, both the city and the centres of government shifted eastwards, though the Old City remained the cultural center of the city.

  3. Jaffa Clock Tower - Wikipedia

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    The official goal was to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, however, the local community had a lot to gain, as Jaffa was going through a rapid process of modernisation and urbanisation, and the building of the clock tower helped develop the vibrant and well-functioning centre of town alongside the ...

  4. Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of old Jaffa Aerial view of old Jaffa and port with Tel Aviv behind. Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized: Yāfō, pronounced ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized: Yāfā, pronounced), also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part.

  5. St. Peter's Church, Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. With its tall, brick façade and towering bell tower, St. Peter's Church is the single largest and most distinctive building in Old Jaffa. The interior of the church is reminiscent of cathedrals in Europe, with a high vaulted ceiling, stained glass, and marble walls.

  6. Ilana Goor Museum - Wikipedia

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    Ilana Goor Museum or Ilana Goor Residence and Museum (Hebrew: מוזיאון אילנה גור) is an Israeli museum situated in the historical part of Jaffa, the Mediterranean port town south of Tel Aviv. The museum was founded in 1995 by Ilana Goor, an artist, designer and sculptor.

  7. Saint Nicholas Monastery, Jaffa - Wikipedia

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    Located in Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, near the harbour and facing the Mediterranean, the monastery consists of a large multi-story complex that includes an Armenian church and living quarters. The monastery is under the jurisdiction of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem , which rents out parts of the complex for residential and commercial ...

  8. Old German Consulate building (Tel Aviv) - Wikipedia

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    The Old German Consulate building is a historic building, built as the Consulate of the German Empire in the Templar neighborhood of "Walhalla" in Jaffa, nowadays part of Tel Aviv. [1] Its construction began in 1913, next to Nablus Road (today, Eilat street 59 in Tel Aviv).

  9. 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 ...

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