Jaffa Is a Dead City

AMERICAN IN PALESTINE - II - In the Arab port (which surrendered yesterday) this correspondent found only 2000 left of its 70,000 people.

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JAFFA used to be a busy metropolis, 'full of wild taxi drivers, donkey carts and smells of bad sanitation.'

Context added by this archive

Published May 14 1948, the day of the Israeli declaration of independence

Cite this item

"Jaffa Is a Dead City," The Boston Globe, 14 May 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-034. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-034

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