Radical Gentrifiers: The Changing Landscape of Social Action in Jaffa - Daniel Monterescu*

In tandem with the breakout of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the October 2000 events marked an important change in the history of the Palestinian minority in Israel. [...] This brief paper 1 Due to the fragmentation of the Arab political system in Jaffa and the recurrent disagreements among key community representatives, the Yafa List lost its seat at the City Council in the 2013 municipal elections. [...] Featuring the figure of Rabbi Kook, one of the founders of religious Zionism and Rabbi of Jaffa in 1904-1916, the movement calls to rid the mixed towns of its Arab legacy and restore Jewish dominance (Figure 3)3. [...] One of the important outcomes of the October 2000 events was the founding of the Yafa Café—the first bookstore in Jaffa since 1948 to systematically specialize in books in Arabic. [...] The historic seal of the Jewish community of Jaffa (1892), bearing the biblical phrase “Unto the Great sea shall be your coast” (left), and the redesigned logo of the Jewish settlement (right): “Re-Jew-venated Torani Community—Jaffa” (2012).