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A boy walks past graffiti on a wall in Arabic and Hebrew which reads Jaffa is not for sale in the historic Arab neighborhood of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Arab-Israeli supermarket cashier Israa Jarbou has missed a week of work for fear of getting attacked by Jews on the bus out of Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish quarter of Tel Aviv.
“They’ll see I’m religious,” said the 27-year-old, who wears the Muslim hijab head covering. “There is no security.”
Living nearby, Jewish seminary student David Shvets, 24, voiced similar fears, saying local Arabs had pelted him with stones and that a nearby synagogue was torched.
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The violent incident in Jaffa last month in which two Arab youths from the Amidar housing projects assaulted the head of the Shirat Moshe Yeshiva was a watershed moment in Jewish-Arab relations in the city.
Since the national-religious settlement effort began in Jaffa in 2008, a host of institutions – including Shirat Moshe, the Gar’in Torani group, the Me’irim Be’yafo development organization, pre-military academies, a Bnei Akiva student village, religious seminaries for women and more – have systematically been built there. While in the past this community grew slowly, the recent violent incident there has redefined the rules of the game. The incident essentially constituted the first clash in the public arena between two parallel processes that Jaffa is undergoing: class-based gentrification and expansion of the Jewish presence there.
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Apr. 21, 2021 2:53 PM
Tel Aviv Magistrate s Court ordered to release brothers Ahmed and Mohammed Garboua under limited conditions Tuesday. The brothers were suspected of attacking head of the Shirat Moshe Yeshiva, Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, in Jaffa Sunday. The police requested to delay their release by one more day to file an appeal to the magistrate s court, and the pair will remain in custody till tomorrow.
The police are treating the case as assault as well as racially motivated, but the court determined that the police did not provide enough evidence to support the claim it was racially motivated. Another reason for the court s decision was because the only evidence that it was racially motivated was not immediately presented.
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