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Jaffa and the struggle to impede Tel Aviv’s expansion 1942–1947
Abstract
Tel Aviv, which the Jaffa Arabs saw as the realisation of the Zionist enterprise, begot hostility to itself. Insofar as the city developed, it was perceived as a threat to Jaffa. The authorities’ approval of the enlargement of Tel Aviv’s boundaries in the early 1940s was, for the Arab side, a challenge to Jaffa’s future, and spawned the declaration of a struggle to achieve two goals: obstruction of Tel Aviv’s expansion and enlargement of Jaffa’s domain. The article examines the measures taken by the Arab side against Tel Aviv’s expansion, their gains and their implications for Jaffa.
This bibliography lists articles and reviews of books relevant to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the quarter 16 February–15 May 2019. Entries are classified under the following headings: Palestine in Global and Comparative Perspectives; Palestine and the Palestinians; Literature and the Arts; Middle East and the Arab World; Israel and Zionism; and Recent Theses and Dissertations.
The 1936 disturbances in Palestine produced one of the most complex and sensitive problems on the local level, which exercised the British authorities until the end of the Mandate period. The demand of the residents of the Jewish neighborhoods of Jaffa to be annexed to Tel-Aviv, and separated from the Jaffa jurisdiction, was the core of the problem. From a local issue, annexation rapidly became a concern of the Yishuv as a whole, its institutions being unremittingly engaged in it as a Zionist/Yishuv struggle of the highest order. Clearly, in the time of the Arab revolt no solution was possible. The lull in the Jewish-Arab conflict following the close of that chapter allowed for the first time a dialogue among the parties to the annexation question in an attempt to resolve it. The article dissects the problem from the viewpoint of each of the three parties concerned from 1940 to 1944, a period that yielded a unique and significant breakthrough.
The ordinance granting Tel Aviv the status of local council was given in 1921. Immediately thereafter, the municipal council acted to amend the terms of the ordinance so as to free Tel Aviv entirely from the supervision of Jaffa municipality. Tel Aviv aimed for the status of an independent municipality, but still wished to safeguard its interests in Jaffa. Detachment from Jaffa was for long a central issue for Tel Aviv municipality. The article analyses the Jewish side's stance on Jaffa from 1921 until the outbreak of the disturbances in 1936, when Tel Aviv detached itself almost entirely from Jaffa. In the 1920s, the importance of Jaffa for the Jews was mainly economic, but in the 1930s, the addition of the demographic dimension reflected the growing status of the Jaffa Jewish community and was decisive in increasing the Jewish influence in Jaffa.
From an Abandoned Village to an Urban Neighborhood: The Case of Salame
- A Golan
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The Jews of Jaffa and the Annexation Question of 1936-1939
- T Goren
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Rise and Fall: The Urban Development of Jaffa and Its Place in Jewish-Arab Strife in Palestine 1917-1947
- T Goren
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Conquest through Town Planning: The Case of Tel Aviv, 1921-48
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The History of Tel Aviv: From a City-State to a City in a State (1936-1952)
- Y Shavit
- G Biger
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The Jewish Community in Jaffa from Sephardic Community to Zionist Center
- H Ram
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The Struggle to Revive Jaffa’s Port 1936-1947
- T Goren
- Goren T.
The Struggle to Unify Jaff’s Jewish Neighborhoods with Tel Aviv 1945-1947
- T Goren
- Goren T.
The History of Tel Aviv: The Birth of a Town (1909-1936)
- Y Shavit
- G Biger
- Shavit Y.