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		B.C.) and was destroyed by Vespasian in A.D. The rebuilt city of Jaffa was conquered by the Arab Moslem Amrou Bin Ala's in 636.
		The Clock Tower in the Clock Square was erected in the center of Jaffa in 1906 by the Othomans to mark the 25th anniversary of Sultan Abdul Hamid's accession to the throne.
		The Big (Mahmoudiyeh) Mosque of Jaffa and the Suleiman Pasha Drinking Fountain which was built into the south wall of the Big Mosque in 1809 by Suleiman Pasha.
	www.jaffa.8m.net /photo.html (1016 words)

	Jaffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Crusades, it was the County of Jaffa, a stronghold of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		Jaffa was captured during the Crusades, and became the County of Jaffa and Ascalon, one of the vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook was chief rabbi of Jaffa from 1904-1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaffa (2811 words)

	Hassan Bek Mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hassan Bek Mosque, also known as the Hasan Bey Mosque, is considered to be one of the most well-known mosques located in the city of Jaffa, Israel.
		The Hassan Bek Mosque was built in 1916, by Jaffa's Turkish-Arab governor, of the same name, with the intention of blocking the early Jewish development of Tel-Aviv that was heading west towards the Mediterranean.
		The mosque served also as the scene of a hate crime that occurred in August of 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hassan_Bek_Mosque (551 words)

	Jaffa, Joppa (Life in the Holy Land) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		JAFFA, or rather Yâfa, is one of the oldest seaports in the world, and its name has been preserved almost unchanged from the earliest times—.
		Jaffa is called "The Port of Jerusalem," but has no proper harbor, and it is only under favorable circumstances of wind and wave that a vessel may come to anchor and ship her freight for the city.
		The town of Jaffa is rapidly increasing in wealth and importance.
	www.lifeintheholyland.com /jaffa.htm (975 words)

	Archaeology in Jaffa
		Jaffa was an established city from the 18th century BCE onwards, and was inhabited by Canaanites, who lived on the tel.
		Jaffa was destroyed by Napoleon who ravaged the inhabitants of Jaffa in his disastrous campaign of Israel in 1799.
		One of the Jaffa rulers rebuilt the city wall, its fountains and its gates, which led to the main roads to Jerusalem and Nablus, and the al-Mahmudiyya Mosque.
	www.jewishmag.com /43mag/jaffa/jaffa.htm (1516 words)

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		The authorities of the occupation have begun excavation activities in the cemeteries and in the mosque adjacent to Jaffa.(Al-Hayat al-Jadida, 7.14.98) 10.
		The Sons of Jaffa Charity Association in Nablus is organizing the convention "Jaffa Bride of the Sea".under the auspices of the President Yasser Arafat (Al-Kuds, 7.9.98) Invites its distinguished customers to spend the best of their moments in the most beautiful cities of Palestine: Jerusalem - Beit She'an - Banias - Tiberias - Jerusalem.
		And it is one of the largest villages in the region of Tiberias that erased Israel from the map and the area in the year '48 and on its land was established.the settlements Metzada and Sha'ar Hagolan.
	www.metrocast.net /~moza/091898 (2927 words)

	Jaffa / Yafo, Israel
		Jaffa, to the south of the city center, preserves something of the atmosphere of an old Arab town, very different from the European air of Tel Aviv.
		Jaffa has undergone great changes in the 20th century.
		During the 1921 riots, in the interests of maintaining order, the British authorities cut wide modern streets through the maze of alleys; then in 1948, following the mass flight of the Arab population, extensive slum clearance and redevelopment was necessary.
	www.planetware.com /tel-aviv-jaffa/jaffa-yafo-isr-ta-tj.htm (192 words)

	Arutz 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Porush’s request come after students in a Jewish kindergarten went on a class trip to a Jaffa mosque and were asked to bow down on their knees by the Imam.
		During the children’s visit to the Mosque, they were asked to remove their shoes and bow down on the ground while receiving a lesson about the Koran.
		The Jaffa school is attended by Jews, Muslims and Christians and has instituted the field trip as a regular part of the curriculum.
	www.israelnn.com /print.php3?what=news&id=59796 (313 words)

	Israel Vacation Pictures
		There is a spring at the top of the canyon which forms at least three separate waterfalls.
		Jaffa is a small port very close to Tel-Aviv.
		A sculpture at Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum.
	www.xmission.com /~czeigler/IsraelPics.htm (440 words)

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		Muslim worshippers at the mosque found the pig's head, wrapped in a traditional Muslim headdress (keffiyeh) last Friday, with a note reading, "The Prophet Mohammed" attached.
		Members of the Islamic Movement in Jaffa, to which the mosque belongs, said the incident was "serious" and represented a "serious blow" to Muslim sensibilities.
		Mosque officials also lodged a formal complaint with Tel Aviv police, and say they have taken police advice and installed closed-circuit televisions on the premises.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3133530,00.html (537 words)

	Arabs Against Discrimination[Men suspected of throwing pig’s head into Jaffa mosque arrested]
		A week after a pig’s head was thrown into the Hassan Bey Mosque in Jaffa, triggering an uproar in the Arab sector and in Arab states, the identities of the suspected perpetrators were revealed.
		On Friday, a pig’s head was thrown into the mosque, located on the Tel Aviv coast, wrapped in a kufiyya on which was written “the Prophet Muhammad.” The Shin Bet later launched an intensive investigation into the identity of the perpetrators.
		Salah said that the northern wing intends to form a team to guard the mosques of Jaffa, Lod, and Ramle, and expressed his surprise at the arrest of the two suspects, who threw the pig’s head into the mosque only a few hours before the Friday prayer.
	www.aad-online.org /2005/english/11-November/29OC-3/29-10/aad2/2.html (571 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive - Israeli Muslims Slam Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Islamic leaders in Israel have accused the government of "encouraging and inciting", and "treating with utmost flaccidity", attacks by Jewish extremists on mosques (and occasionally on some churches) in the country.
		According to the Israeli state-run radio, the two, a man and a woman, told police they hated the Arabs so much and wanted to cause riots that would slow down the implementation of the pullout or stop it entirely.
		The suspects also said they were planning to throw another pig's head into a mosque on Friday night, and police reportedly found the head in a refrigerator during a search of the suspects' homes.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/D509DA89-6A57-48A2-8F5E-E118637DDDFD.htm (566 words)

	Arrest over British murder \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		Israeli police have solved the stabbing attack that took place in August in Jerusalem's Old City, in which Shmuel Eliyahu Mett, a British student of the Mir Yeshiva, was murdered.
		He then hid at Jaffa Gate, and when the three yeshiva students passed by he stabbed them.
		He returned to Nablus Gate, and when the Old City was closed, he entered the mosque, washed off the blood stains, prayed and returned to his home.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1611_arrest_over_british_.htm (381 words)

	Journeyman Pictures : short films : Minarets in the Face of Destruction
		Mosques are considered the property of God, and to let them fall into such disrepair is seen to be an unforgivable insult.
		Even where Muslims have tried to renovate mosques themselves, such as the Hiteen Mosque in Jaffa, the Israeli authorities are accused of being obstructive.
		At a museum, once a thriving mosque, questions from the filmaker are met with cold silence.
	www.journeyman.tv /?lid=10235 (642 words)

	Pig's head found in Jaffa mosque yard
		Muslim worshippers found Friday a severed pig's head, wrapped in a red and a fl keffiyeh with the word Mohammad written on it, in the yard outside the Hassan Bek mosque, between Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
		Mosque employees informed the police, and an investigation into the incident is underway.
		Investigation will show whether the incident is linked to other attempts to attack the mosque, as rocks have been hurled at the mosque recently, breaking its windows.
	www.islamonline.com /cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=1678 (677 words)

	Jerusalem Peace Treaty of Jaffa (020303)
		The second, short-lived phase began with the reoccupation of Jerusalem by the Franks under the terms of the Treaty of Jaffa and Tell Ajul, ratified on 18 February 1229.
		With the signing of the Treaty of Jaffa (February 18, 1229), the Sultan of Egypt, El-Kamel, conceded the Holy Places of Jerusalem and its surrounding territory to Frederick II for a period of ten years.
		The treaty also stated that the holy shrine of Al-Sakhra dome and its mosque should be left to the Muslims.
	www.solami.com /jaffa1.html (9950 words)

	Picture of Jaffa: mosque looking out over the turquoise Mediterranean Sea \| Jaffa \| Israel
		This picture was taken during a visit to Jaffa, Israel.
		You can see more images of Jaffa by clicking on the thumbnails on the right.
		You can locate Jaffa and navigate the world using Google Earth.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/asia/jaffa04.shtml (153 words)

	Israeli Muslims slam government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The charges were voiced on Friday during a press conference organised by the Islamic Movement in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv.
		During the conference, the leadership of the Islamic Movement announced that "vulnerable mosques" located in or near mixed towns, like Jaffa, Lud and Haifa, would be guarded 24 hours a day.
		The suspects also said they were planning to throw another pig's head into a mosque on Friday night, and police reportedly found the head in a refrigerator during a search of the suspects' homes.
	www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/article_14046.shtml (677 words)

	FOR- Interfaith Peacebuilders Delegation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Most of the women involved in these organizations are peace activists, but they do include activism around the Palestinian/Israeli conflict with these organizations in order to remain open to help conservative women on both sides who need their assistance.
		The Mosque was built during the Ottoman period.
		He focused on relating the history of the mosque, including the Israeli displacement of the local Muslims and their subsequent use of the mosque as a “stable for animals, drug use, and prostitution.” After much struggle with the Israeli government, restoration of the mosque began in 1988.
	www.forusa.org /programs/ipb/delegation-aug03/ipb_report-4.html (1695 words)

	Regional Roundups -- Middle East Times
		The two suspects, both in their 30s, confessed to throwing the animal's head into the Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa, saying that they hate Arabs and wanted to derail Israel's historic pullout from the Gaza Strip, the sources said.
		Another pig's head was found in their fridge, which the couple said that they had planned to throw into the mosque to spark a riot among Muslims living in the coastal town near Tel Aviv.
		Officials in the Hassan Bek mosque, which is situated between Tel Aviv and the neighboring port town of Jaffa, made the discovery on Friday, the Muslim holy day, and immediately contacted the police.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20050822-093157-3604r (3773 words)

	J'lem stabbing - to avenge pig in mosque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Pray at the mosque, murder, pray at the mosque.
		The next logical response is to bulldoze the mosque, kill the murderer, and bury him with pig entrails.
		It is pretty obvious that if there was a pig head in a mosque, it would have had to be an Arab that put it there.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1500549/posts (2676 words)

	World Tourist Attraction Index
		Mosque of Qait Bey Medinet el-Fayyum, El-Fayyum, Egypt
		Mosque of Sultan Barquq Qalaun Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
		Mosque of Yakovali Hassan Pasha Pécs, Baranya, Hungary
	www.planetware.com /index/1017.htm (213 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The graffiti was first discovered by the mosque's custodian Osman Zamari when he opened the building at daybreak, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
		"During the night, a group of settlers came to a mosque in the village of Nabi Ilyas and sprayed the graffiti," the source was quoted by Reuters as saying.
		In August of 2005, Jewish settlers dropped a pig head into a mosque in Jaffa, wrapped by a veil on which was written the name of Prophet Muhammad in Hebrew.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2006-02/12/article03.shtml (499 words)

	EJP \| News \| UK \| Attacker admits murdering British student
		Abed al-Muaz Jueba said he killed Londoner Shmuel Mett in August as an act of revenge for the desecration of a Jaffa mosque, where a pigs head was thrown into the holy building earlier that month.
		He then hid in a local mosque where he washed the blood off his hands and waited till the police opened up the gates of the old city.
		Jueba, who is married with two children and works as a shoemaker, was caught on closed circuit TV cameras knifing the students.
	www.ejpress.org /article/news/uk/3649 (459 words)

	International Middle East Media Center - Pig's head in a Jaffa Mosque Yard
		Muslim worshippers were shocked to find a pigs head in the yard of the Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa near Tel Aviv in Israel, on Friday night.
		Israeli sources said, the mosque was stoned recently and several windows were broken.
		The same Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in Jaffa, was attacked by some Jewish extremists in 2001 after a Palestinian blew himself up in an Israeli night club.
	www.imemc.org /content/view/13405/0 (472 words)

	Jerusalem Post \| Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
		Demonstrators, repeatedly repelled by police, maneuvered to another side of the mosque which stands on its own in a square.
		Worshipers inside the mosque started throwing stones back at the demonstrators, and were later removed by special police units.
		In the afternoon, police reinforcements surrounded the mosque and succeeded in preventing the mob from entering Jaffa to clash with Arab residents.
	info.jpost.com /C001/Supplements/Disco/index3.html (1028 words)

	Weekly Review of the Arab Press in Israel
		This was followed by the protest by a group of Jews who encircled the Hassan Bek Mosque in Jaffa, trapping some of the worshippers inside the Mosque.
		A new phenomenon has emerged whereby people are moving from Tel Aviv into Jaffa’s neighborhoods, as the old houses are cheaper, and they can repair them and sell them on, making large profits.
		The properties are desirable as these neighborhoods are close to the sea, and farther from the noise of the city.
	www.arabhra.org /publications/wrap/2001/wrap34.htm (1603 words)

	Islam-Israelsrael Fellowship Update:
		activities in the cemeteries and in the mosque adjacent to
		The Sons of Jaffa Charity Association in Nablus is organizing the
		convention "Jaffa Bride of the Sea".under the auspices of the
	www.hebroots.org /hebrootsarchive/9811/9811_i.html (3474 words)

	Islamic World News - IslamOnline.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A new "Islamic Directory" that includes information about mosques and Islamic schools is now available for Muslim students wishing to complete their studies in Australia.
		About 131 Thai Muslims escaped their country and sought refuge in several mosques in Malaysia, police said on Thursday.
		A committee appointed by India's PM has found that most of the country’s public and private banks were declining loans to Muslims.
	www.islamonline.com /cgi-bin/news_service/world.asp?offset=705 (376 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Muhammad pig's head' inflames tensions
		A pig's head thrown into a mosque with the words "The Prophet Muhammad" written on it is stirring deep tensions here, with a popular extremist sheik today threatening an Arab revolt and Jewish Temple Mount activists calling on Arabs to be expelled from the country.
		The pig's head, which was covered in a fl-and-white checkered kaffiyeh, that is an Arab headdress, was thrown last week into the Hassen Bek Mosque of Jaffa, just outside Tel Aviv.
		A Tel Aviv couple arrested today admitted to placing the pig in the mosque in hopes, they said, of instigating area Muslims to riot in order to derail the Gaza evacuation plan, which was at its height during the incident.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45986 (638 words)

	Jaffa's Grand Mosque (1999)
		Jaffa - يافا : Jaffa's Grand Mosque (1999)
		a guest book, click here to sign Jaffa's guest book.
		Just describe what you know in the picture.
	www.palestineremembered.com /Jaffa/Jaffa/Picture2000.html (219 words)

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