Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former city of west-central Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. An ancient Phoenician city, it was taken by the Israelites in the 6th century AD and later fell to the Arabs (636), Crusaders (12th century), and Ottoman Turks (16th century). Jaffa was inhabited mainly by Arabs until the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948. Since 1950 the city has been part of Tel Aviv–Yafo.
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- proper noun A
port inwestern Israel - noun informal A
Jaffa orange .
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- noun a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950
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Examples
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My favorite bakery in Jaffa is Abulafia which as you can see in this BBC report has been in business in since 1879 (that's 130 years!), and is owned by the Abulafia family who are Arabs.
All we are saying... 2009
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My favorite bakery in Jaffa is Abulafia which as you can see in this BBC report has been in business in since 1879 (that's 130 years!), and is owned by the Abulafia family who are Arabs.
All we are saying... 2009
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My favorite bakery in Jaffa is Abulafia which as you can see in this BBC report has been in business in since 1879 (that's 130 years!), and is owned by the Abulafia family who are Arabs.
Geopolitics 2010
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Jaffa is a taut drama that benefits from an extremely strong cast.
George Heymont: It's the Most Dysfunctional Time of the Year! George Heymont 2010
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Jaffa is a taut drama that benefits from an extremely strong cast.
George Heymont: It's the Most Dysfunctional Time of the Year! George Heymont 2010
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We in Jaffa used to hear news about Palestinian villages falling into Jewish hands as well as massacres committed by the Jews.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout 2009
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Mine is located in Jaffa (Yafo), once (meaning before 1948) “The Bride of the Sea”, now a slummy southern Tel Aviv suburb.
Global Voices in English » Israel: “Ajami” Reveals Nuanced Look at Israeli Society 2009
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He was born and raised in Jaffa, but his family were forced to leave Palestine in 1948, and went to Lebanon.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout 2009
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But Jaffa is writing about Shakespeare, in part, to make a now quite familiar point about the degeneration of modern culture and the collapse of the novelist as moralist.
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Once you know that, and that in addition to being a variety of orange, Jaffa is also a city located directly next to Tel Aviv, the title sort of says it all.
Creating “Orange Map” by Avner Bar Hama « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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