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...
View ArticleA brainless monster for a boatless harbour
Israel Hadani, a fairly 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...
View ArticleJaffa mud takes hostages
Different streets in Jaffa were opened up in order to carry out major maintenance work. As usual, the archeologists go in first, then all the other relevant companies; electricity, sewage, water...
View ArticleAsbestos 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...
View ArticleDrug 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,...
View ArticlePlaying 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...
View ArticleThe supreme court on the etrog case
The Israel land administration sold publicly owned land to a company "Be'emuna" who wish to construct a building "for religious zionist nationalist Jews only" right in the center of Ajami, on the...
View ArticlePhoenix Torcina
About 2 weeks ago "Torcina" was more or less demolished on court orders.Usually demolitions are carried out by police protected bulldozers. The bill for which is later presented to the unhappy previous...
View ArticleAnother Ajami home demolished today
The terra coloured one story building at the corner of HaOgen and HaToren streets in Ajami, next to the "Hasan Arafe" school, housed an extended family. The father, who in the past led the struggle...
View ArticleToday at 5 p.m. "Break the Siege" demonstration in Jaffa, from 163 Kedem Street
The Jaffa Committee for Gaza invites you The Jaffa Committee for Gaza invites youTo join the "Break the Siege" demonstrationToday, saturday, Dec. 26th at 17:00, from Kedem 163, JaffaOne year ago the...
View ArticleThe crime of being poor as defined by the Tel Aviv municipality
Yafo Gimmel is located at the very southern end of Jaffa, almost Bat Yam. Nowhere close to any of the fancier locations much in request by the gentrifyers and real estate investors looking of yet...
View ArticleJaffa for Gaza Demonsration
"Stop the siege of the Gaza Strip" was the main message in yesterday's demonstration in Jaffa, where over 1000 people, Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. marched through Jabaliyah and Ajami neighborhoods...
View ArticleThe 2010 municipal budget - good for the wealthy and who cares about the rest?
Yesterday evening the Tel Aviv - Yafo municipal council voted for the budget proposal for the year 2010: The coalition praised themselves for their great sensitivity and the wonderful budget proposal....
View ArticleNo, that ain't fireworks
Just a volley of automatic gunshots made me sit up and feel very scared last night. This time it was really really close by. No screaming right afterwards, so it must have been a warning volley. For...
View ArticleThe Metropolitan Public Transport Plan
It's very ambitious, has no budget attached nor a time table; the grand plan for the metropolitan public transport reorganization. 900.000 People a day use public transport to get to Tel Aviv Jaffa...
View ArticleMurder in Jaffa
About an hour and a half ago an as yet unidentified man apparently in his late twenties was shot and killed in the area close to the Wolfson Hospital. Initially he appeared to be wounded lightly but...
View ArticleHamude Shakra, victim, yet another murder victim in Jaffa.
Yesterday i wrote about the murder of a man in Jaffa, not realizing i know the victim and his family quite well. His mother and sisters are friends and i had coffee at their place only a week ago,...
View ArticleViolence by the authorities, no one seems to care very much
Hikmat is 2 weeks old, a tiny little girl, red faced and well wrapped up.This morning the police broke the door to the small house she lives in, tear-gassed the place, her room included. Then they...
View ArticleAnd a little more
Hell, two very loud volleys of automatic gun fire really close by just now.Coming from a slightly northern direction as in "the other side of the building", as in my building, the one i live in.
View ArticleBlack forces in a not so orange orange grove
When demolished, a home makes an awful sound. Yesterday it went on for hours, the slow demolition process of the second floor of the Dake home. Large yellow machines slowly crunched away at the...
View ArticleStormy weather
The wind is howling around my house. When i just went outside to have a look at the sea, i was almost blown from the garden steps. And one look at the sea confirmed the other noise i had been hearing:...
View ArticleA dead dog, police and a few kids: Ajami the sequel?
Yesterday a dog was killed in a car accident in Ajami. It happens. The dog's owner, a kid from Ajami, did what people do when a beloved pet dies: bury it.The child and some of his friends buried said...
View ArticleAjami, ethnic cleansing one step further, unless the high court stops it
Last Wednesday judge Zafet of the Tel Aviv district court heard the case of 28 Jaffa residents (honesty demands to say that i'm one of them) against the Israel Land Administration and the Be'emuna...
View ArticleDemonstration against police violence in Jaffa today
Yes, there is violent crime in Jaffa. Last evening a man in his thirties was shot and badly wounded in Yefet Street. The night before there was another shooting incident in Maor Enayim Street. And IF...
View ArticleAnd the police were just laughing
Some 300 people, both Palestinian and Jews, marched from the Clock Tower square in Jaffa to the Yiftah police office on Salameh Street, protesting against thelatest wave of police violence.Among the...
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