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News from Jaffa / Yafo (especially Ajami / Adjami) seen through local eyes from a critical perspective. What happens in Jaffa is symbolic for what happens in the rest of the country and the area (Israel / Palestine and perhaps the Middle East).
Photographs and short stories describing and analysing various aspects of life in Jaffa.
- Author: yudit ilany
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Recent Posts
The supreme court on the etrog case
The Israel land administration sold publicly owned land to a company "Be'emuna" who wish to cnstruct a building for religious zionist nationalist Jews only right in the center of ajami, on the "etrog plot", where our market used to be.After having wo...
Playing with fire in the Ajami mosque
Yesterday morning a group of armed settlers entered the compound of the Ajami mosque (next to the Hasan Arafe primary school) in the framework of their tour of Jaffa.One wonders about the true purpose of that visit. Was it to repectfully view the gra...
Drug related arrests and other trouble in Jaffa
Over the last few months the police used a drug-addict as their agent. A violent young man, an only son, pampered by his doting parents until it was too late.A good football player, an intelligent boy, good-looking too. But something went horribly wr...
Asbestos is good for children\'s health
My friend E. lives in a small shack located next to several large houses and newly constructed villas in Ajami.She has three young children.Her much richer neighbors decided to do some home improvement and replace the asbestos roof of their home with...
A brainless monster for a boatless harbour
Israel Hadani, a well known sculptor, designed a six meter high monster, a headless woman, legs-bound, a victim if there ever was a victim, Andromeda. Its shape reminds one of a rather unelegant doll of "Oscar" Award style, perhaps something to be pl...
Sheikh Bassam Street in Jaffa
It's a smallish and brand new street leading from the southern part of the harbour to Kedem Street (or street nr. sixty), constructed in the area where the Al Adassi home was until the municipality demolished it, some two years ago.That very same mun...
