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England's King Richard the Lionheart is seen in an artist's depiction of the Battle of Jaffa in 1192. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) September 2, 2021, marks 829 years since the signing of the ...
This is Ajami, a fast-gentrifying neighborhood in the ancient port city of Jaffa. Formerly Palestine’s cultural and economic capital, today Jaffa is a so-called “mixed city” of Palestinian ...
The fighting also catalyzed a mass exodus of Jaffa’s Arab inhabitants who fled the city on land and by sea. Forty one Irgun fighters fell (over half of them in battle against the British ...
“Ultimately I believe that one of the reasons why the battle happened in the particular spot I identified is because Saladin did not believe that Richard was marching towards Jaffa but that at ...
It is arguably Britain's greatest invention after the steam engine and the light bulb. But is a Jaffa Cake actually a biscuit, asks David Edmonds. This question reheats a confectionery conundrum ...