Not next year, not in Jerusalem: Israeli Palestinians' – and My Family's – Desire to Return Home
Author: Rebecca Yael Bak 28/02/2006
As Badr shows me his mosque, I am reminded of my visits to the Nissan Bak Shul with a mixture of pride and sadness.
A Palestinian Village in the Heart of Tel Aviv?
Author: Omer Carmon 31/07/2005
"The catastrophe of the Palestinian people is silenced and is not present in the physical and cultural landscape of Israel," claims the organization, whose members ask to preserve the Palestinian villages in Tel Aviv.The Israeli NGO “Zochrot” seeks to commemorate the remains of abandoned Palestinian villages, which existed in the area where Tel Aviv extends today, and to settle Palestinians there. Beside ideology, they claim that in this manner the city will be salvaged from its “one-dimensionality.”
The JNF will post signs commemorating the Palestinian villages that were destroyed
Author: Amiram Barakat 30/06/2005
The state has agreed to post signs following a petition to the High Court of Justice; The signs will be posted in Canada Park in memory of Yalu and Imwas which were destroyed in '67.The state has agreed to post signs following a petition to the High Court of Justice; The signs will be posted in Canada Park in memory of Yalu and Imwas which were destroyed in '67.
The Palestinian Past of Canada Park is Forgotten in JNF Signs
Author: Yuval Yoaz 31/05/2005
The omission of the "Palestinian period" in the area by State authorities and the JNF is the subject of a petition submitted to the High Court of Justice on Thursday by the organization "Zochrot," through Adv. Michael Sfard.
The omission of the "Palestinian period" in the area by State authorities and the JNF is the subject of a petition submitted to the High Court of Justice on Thursday by the organization "Zochrot," through Adv. Michael Sfard.
Conference for Adherents of Elimination
Author: Ben-Dror Yemini 15/04/2005
What was actually said there is less important. Academic research suffers all. True, there are Palestinians who know how to present their demand in a moderate fashion, true that the return is a constitutive Palestinian ethos, but it doesn't mean that we have to enter this trap...
Who moved my street?
Author: Eli Levy 30/11/2004
A lawyer who is a Haifa resident, and who asked to remain anonymous, said that he found a sign in Arabic with the name of a street from the period before the War of Independence and immediately informed members of the City Council and various public figures.Phenomenon: At a number of locations in Haifa, signs have been posted in Arabic changing the names of old streets.
Right of remembrance
Author: Aviv Lavie 30/09/2004
In 1951, Cohen was 33 years old; he had come to Israel from Iraq with his family, and they were housed by the Ben-Gurion government in an abandoned refugee home. Now he replied with a groan uttered straight from the heart: "My house is here, too."At the site of the cinemaplex, 56 year ago, was the village of Ijlil, home to 750 families. Cast a glance at the house on the hill on the other side next time you go to catch a movie.
Opposition to the demolition of the Beidas House, one of the last remains of Sheikh Muwanis in Tel Aviv
Author: Esther Zandberg 31/07/2003
The site, the area of which is about 45 dunams, also contains the central structure of the Ramat Aviv Hotel, built in a modern style in 1951, with a vacation atmosphere that reminded Tel Avivians of the beaches of Florida. In addition to the central structure, the hotel included 21 country-style gazebos. The gazebos have already been razed and the hotel, an elegant and eye-pleasing structure, is sadly also slated for demolition.
