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Why were Tel Aviv residents expelled by Ottoman authorities in 1917?
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Beach and high-rise buildings in Tel AvivâYafo, Israel.
In 1917, the Ottoman military authorities expelled the entire population of Tel Aviv and the Jewish residents of nearby Jaffa northward. This action was taken because the Ottoman authorities suspected that these residents held sympathies for the advancing British army. The residents were eventually able to return to their homes in late 1917, following the capture of Jaffa and Tel Aviv by British forces.12