EXCURSION - "PORT OF HOPE - JEWISH JAFFA"
18.07.2021
“The last night before arriving in Jaffa, I was sleepless ... My thoughts are haunted ... Yes! The shore of the ancestral land! And fear grows inside. I was afraid! Jaffa! Jaffa! There is a lot of excitement on the ship, all the passengers are packing their things ... ” Why was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man who revived the spoken Hebrew, so excited?
Our guide Olga Andreeva described these feeling during a new excursion, "Port of Hope", about Jewish life and community in Jaffa. We explored traces of the first Jewish community, including a monument, Jewish hotels and much more.
We saw the steps which the future founding fathers of the Jewish state climbed to the Holy Land, learned about the demolished Jewish neighborhood in the center of Jaffa and the first trade deals in Hebrew.
She talked about the demolishing of the old Customs building in the port last summer during Corona, and the return of vibrant Jewish life to Jaffa in recent year
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