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- proper noun Alternative form of
Jaffa .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950
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Examples
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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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Like Menkes 'women, he lives in the periphery of mainstream society -- in Yafo, a predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, where many Arab families maintain their ancestral houses within a barely veiled atmosphere of tension caused by racial and religious friction.
Natasha Subramaniam: Searching for Redemption in Nina Menkes' Dissolution Natasha Subramaniam 2010
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Like Menkes 'women, he lives in the periphery of mainstream society -- in Yafo, a predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, where many Arab families maintain their ancestral houses within a barely veiled atmosphere of tension caused by racial and religious friction.
Natasha Subramaniam: Searching for Redemption in Nina Menkes' Dissolution 2010
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Like Menkes 'women, he lives in the periphery of mainstream society -- in Yafo, a predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, where many Arab families maintain their ancestral houses within a barely veiled atmosphere of tension caused by racial and religious friction.
Natasha Subramaniam: Searching for Redemption in Nina Menkes' Dissolution 2010
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Like Menkes 'women, he lives in the periphery of mainstream society -- in Yafo, a predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, where many Arab families maintain their ancestral houses within a barely veiled atmosphere of tension caused by racial and religious friction.
Natasha Subramaniam: Searching for Redemption in Nina Menkes' Dissolution 2010
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Not quite sure what happened, but somehow I never made it, and wound up buying my first kippah on Yafo street instead.
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Went to hear a friend, Yosefa Raz, read from her new book of poetry, In Exchange For A Homeland at Timol Shilshom, a cafe off of Yafo street that specializes in great cultural events.
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Not quite sure what happened, but somehow I never made it, and wound up buying my first kippah on Yafo street instead.
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Went to hear a friend, Yosefa Raz, read from her new book of poetry, In Exchange For A Homeland at Timol Shilshom, a cafe off of Yafo street that specializes in great cultural events.
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The names of the towns were familiar from religious school: Yafo, Jericho, Beersheba.
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