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What happened to much of Jaffa’s old city after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?

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Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, most of Jaffa’s old city was demolished.1

During the conflict, nearly all of the city's 70,000 Arab residents were displaced, and the city came under the control of Jewish paramilitaries. After Jaffa was united with Tel Aviv-Yafo in 1950, the approximately 4,000 Arabs who remained in the area were concentrated into the Ajami neighborhood, located south of the old city.12