The real name of Tel Aviv
We will talk about the city of Tel Aviv, in all fairness, objectivity and neutrality, without religious sentiment. The word is Hebrew and its translation into Arabic is Tel al-Rabi’.
The truth confirms that it is not the historical name of the city, but rather that Tel Aviv was the name of a neighborhood in a huge city and was allocated to the Jewish population between 1909-1910 during the Ottoman Caliphate. As for the city, its name was Jaffa.
The city of Jaffa is one of the oldest and most important historical cities in Palestine. It was swallowed up by a small neighborhood, Tel Aviv, and took over the original name of the beautiful coastal city.
After the disaster of 1948, Jaffa’s residents were displaced, whether they were Muslims or non-Muslims, Arabs or non-Arabs, except for the Jews. Currently, it has turned into a major settlement inhabited by approximately 60 thousand Zionists.
The Canaanites founded the city in the fourth millennium BC, and it became an important commercial center because of its distinguished location on the Palestinian coast. Jaffa became a distinguished civilization and had close relations with its neighboring civilizations. The name Jaffa means that it is approximately 6,000 years old.
Jaffa or Jaffa is an old Canaanite name that means beautiful or beautiful view, because the scene from the city of Jaffa, which occupies a high hill on the coast, is a picturesque and enchanting scene.
Jaffa was mentioned in ancient papyri, including a papyrus from the era of Tuthmosis III, called “Yuba” or “Yebo,” 1500 BC. It was mentioned in another papyrus 1300 BC, and it spoke of the beauty of the city of Jaffa with a wonderful poetic description.
The name Jaffa was always mentioned in a papyrus of King Sennacherib in 701 BC under the name “Ya-Ab-Bo”, who seized it at that time.
Before the occupation of Palestine, Jaffa was its undisputed cultural capital. It contained the most important daily newspapers, magazines, printing and publishing houses, cinemas, theaters and cultural clubs.
On April 26, 1948, Jewish organizations in an operation they called Operation Dror occupied the city of Jaffa.
In 1949, the occupation government annexed Tel Aviv and Jaffa under a common name, which is the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality, and changed many of its features and demolished a large part of its neighborhoods, and it was almost Judaized.
Currently, the city consists of 12 neighborhoods. Palestinians live in only 3 neighborhoods, and the most important neighborhoods in Jaffa at the present time are Al-Ajami, Al-Manshiyya, Irshid, Al-Nuzha, Al-Jabaliya, and Hermish.
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