Word: jaffa
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...that Eirinaios was elected with covert aid from a shady Greek intelligence informant arrested in April on charges of drug trafficking. The current uproar began in March when an Israeli newspaper claimed the Patriarchate had leased properties in Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square, just inside the Old City's Jaffa Gate, to Jewish investors. That inflames Palestinians because they believe the Old City should one day become part of a Palestinian state. Israeli security officials tell Time that the Patriarchate-owned New Imperial Hotel and Petra Hotel were leased through a U.S. shell company, perhaps by Ateret Cohanim, a nationalist...
...Café Jaffa...
...chunks of meat. The oversized pitas are piping hot and chewy, served in portions that are big enough to scoop up every last bit of baba ganoush. Lit with lamps brought from Sander’s native Israel and painted in warm golden tones, the interior of Café Jaffa is an ideal setting for an early evening post-shopping snack or a casual first date...
Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal was his nom de guerre) was 11 when his affluent family was forced to flee the Arab city of Jaffa, now part of Israel, ahead of Jewish forces in the 1948 war. As a laborer in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s, he latched onto politics, joining Yasser Arafat's Fatah group, which would become the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Bouncing between Jordan, Sudan and Iraq, he rose through the ranks of the P.L.O...
...Thank God I have theater for my therapy. If I don't have theater, I would take a gun and shoot many people." NORMAN ISSA, Arab-Israeli actor with the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, an actors' group committed to partnership between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, on his divided feelings...