Jaffa Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====1940-47: WWII; frictions==== [[Village Statistics, 1945|Village Statistics of 1945]] listed Jaffa with a population of 94,310, of whom 50,880 were Muslims, 28,000 were Jews, 15,400 were Christians and 30 were classified as "other".<ref name=1945p27>Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p27.jpg 27]</ref> The Christians were mostly [[Greek Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] and about one-sixth of them were members of the [[Eastern Catholic Churches]]. One of the most prominent members of the Arab Christian community was the Greek Orthodox [[Issa El-Issa]], publisher of the newspaper [[Falastin (newspaper)|''Falastin'']]. In 1945, the Jewish community of Jaffa complained to the city mayor [[Yousef Haikal]] that their neighbourhoods don't receive appropriate municipal services (street lighting and paving, garbage removal, sewerage etc.) even though they contribute 40% of the municipality's budget. Some of the services (education, healthcare, and social services) had already been provided by [[Tel Aviv Municipality]] at its own expense, which formed the base for the Jewish community's demand that the Mandatory government annex their neighbourhoods to Tel Aviv.<ref>{{cite web |title= שכונות יפו חוזרות ודורשות: סיפוח! העבודות בשכונה נמסרות ,למציע הזול ביותר" | הבקר | 13 יולי 1945 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית | url= https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/hbkr/1945/07/13/01/article/83/}}</ref> In the year of 1946, Tel Aviv Municipality spent [[£P]] 300K on services for the Jewish neighbourhoods of Jaffa,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/hbkr/1947/04/10/01/article/80/ | title=סיפוח מהיר לתל־אביב תובעים תושבי שני יפו | הבקר | 10 אפריל 1947 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית }}</ref> an increase from £P 80K in the year of 1942.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/haretz/1943/08/05/01/article/28/ | title=השכונות היהודיות של יפו דורשות סיפוח מידי לתל־אביב | הארץ | 5 אוגוסט 1943 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page