Jaffa

[ jaf-uh, jah-fuh; locally yah-fah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a former seaport in W Israel, part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 1950: ancient Biblical town.

Jaffa

/ ˈdʒɑː-; ˈdʒæfə /

a port in W Israel, on the Mediterranean: incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950; an old Canaanite city Biblical nameJoppa Hebrew nameYafo
a large variety of orange, having a thick skin

Half an hour after I had returned to my old apartment from Jaffa, an air raid siren went off.

Though Jaffa remains a mixed Jewish-Arab city, Ben-Ami says the city center is long devoid of its Arab character and inhabitants.

JAFFA, ISRAEL—Israeli tour guide Yuval Ben-Ami, 37, waves his arm down the shore towards Tel Aviv.

We will act to correct this situation and develop a plan to ensure that Jaffa maintains its Jewish character.

Radical leftist activists and Islamist organizations have in recent years gained control of the public discourse in Jaffa.

Will you, vagabonds, still reproach me for having induced you to leave the fortress of the Marquis of Jaffa?

Indeed, during those two months spent with the Marquis of Jaffa, we made but two sorry finds.

He repaired the fortifications of Jaffa and Cæsarea, and assisted the Templars in putting the country into a defensible state.

Gaza was taken, Jaffa stormed, and ten thousand French soldiers advanced under their young general on Acre.

It was situated in the tribe of Dan in a fine plain, and has acquired the modern name of Jaffa.

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