How Israel erases Arabic from the public landscape
Author: Umar al-Ghubari (translated by Richard Flantz), +972 Magazine 11/2015
The Israeli government has begun omitting the Arabic name for Jerusalem from its street signs, erasing not only the language from the Israeli consciousness, but Palestinian identity itself.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY: The house in Raziel 3, Yaffa
05/2015
HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY
The House on 3 Raziel/Bustrus St., Yaffa
Najib Bustrus’s House
Basic Data: Address ID: 101245; street code: 3002; block 7017, parcel 46. The municipality file and the information it contains refer to parcels 42-47, i.e. the houses on 1-11 Raziel St., the house on 4 Willy Brandt St. and probably also part of Jerusalem Boulevard. This information matches a historical British map that refers to the entire complex (Raziel 1-11) as block 7017, parcel 6.
Pre-1948 History