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Small boats and fishing vessels are docked in the old port of Jaffa, Israel, with historic stone buildings rising up the hillside in the background. Engraving of Richard I, wearing armor and raising an axe, leading knights as they land by ship at Jaffa during the Third Crusade, with soldiers gathering on shore. Antoine-Jean Gros: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa Theodor Herzl, seated at center in a dark suit and cap, with a group of men in mixed Western and Middle Eastern attire on the deck of a ship, sailing toward Jaffa. Map showing the United Nations partition plan for Palestine adopted in 1947, with areas color-coded to indicate proposed Jewish state, Arab state, and a separate Jerusalem district. The map includes key cities and regions, borders with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, and highlights the Mediterranean coast.
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Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel: Jaffa port
The old city port of Jaffa in Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel.
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Richard I at Jaffa, 1192
Richard I (Richard Coeur de Lion) landing at Jaffa to lift Saladin's siege.
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Antoine-Jean Gros: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, oil on canvas by Antoine-Jean...
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Theodor Herzl sailing to Palestine
Political Zionist Theodor Herzl (in the peaked cap) and his party, sailing from Alexandria,...
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UN partition plan for Israel and Palestine in 1947
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