Arabs, Jewish Immigrants Now Live, Work Side by Side In Jaffa, Israel

James M. Long, Associated Press, Jaffa, Israel

Transcribed from the clipping

“Quiet, in his dignity of years, the Arab patriarch sits in the sidewalk shade, with his hubble-bubble pipe and his unspoken thoughts of the old Jaffa and the new… But only 6,500 Arabs are left of a crowded population of 60,000… Since the last of the Iraqi troops withdrew and Israeli soldiers dynamited and mortar-fired their way through Jaffa’s Manshiye slum quarter, 50,000 Jewish immigrants have been moved into the city.”

Context added by this archive

A correspondent standing beside a man, noticing there is something he is not saying, writing the observation down, and moving to the next paragraph, which is about a Jewish shoemaker. The archive’s Jaffa section gives seventy thousand people, then two thousand; this printing gives sixty thousand, then six thousand five hundred. Both are American newspapers and neither is the archive’s own count.

Cite this item

"Arabs, Jewish Immigrants Now Live, Work Side by Side In Jaffa, Israel," The Herald News, 25 November 1955. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1955-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1955-004