Jaffa

Jaffa is one of the world's oldest ports, and Tel Aviv began in 1909 as a neighborhood of Jaffa built on sand dunes. The two were merged into one municipality in 1950 and now share a shoreline of beaches, markets, and Bauhaus buildings recognized by UNESCO. The sites here run from the old harbor north along the sea and into the city where

Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995.

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Jaffa

A port as old as the Bible

Jaffa is one of the world's oldest working ports, mentioned in the Bible in the story of Jonah and as the place where cedar logs for Solomon's Temple arrived. Napoleon's army took the city in 1799. Its old quarter, with stone alleys and the Zodiac Alleys, now holds galleries and artists' studios, along with the Ottoman clock tower and the 19th-century St. Peter's Church. Jaffa once had a large Arab majority and was merged with Tel Aviv in 1950. Fishing boats still use the harbor, and the Ilana Goor Museum presents art in a historic building.

Glossary: Jaffa Port