Jaffa
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Sep 14, 2026
Shany MorGUEST
It's not to make Hebron into Tel Aviv.
Shany MorGUEST
It's to make my life in Jaffa look like Hebron or in Akko or in Lod or in Romney or anywhere else or Haifa.
Shany MorGUEST
Those are all cities with mixed Arab-Jewish
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
populations.
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Haviv Rettig GurHOST
The West Bank to me is, A, it really is the historic homeland.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
I mean, most of the Bible happens there.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
It doesn't happen in Jaffa.
Haviv Rettig GurHOST
I mean, Jonah, the prophet, was in Jaffa.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
But English has been saying Jerusalem for a thousand years.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Same with Jaffa for Yaffo, Acre for Acco.
CornHOST
And the question is always where you draw the line.
CornHOST
Caesarea is an exonym, but Caesarea is what Israelis call it.
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Herman PoppleberryHOST
So the pronunciation principle has an exception for famous exonyms.
CornHOST
The exception is huge.
CornHOST
Jerusalem, Jaffa, Acre, Nablus, Caesarea, the Sea of Galilee.
CornHOST
These are the names tourists actually know.
CornHOST
Jerusalem versus Yerushalayim.
CornHOST
Jaffa versus Jaffo.
CornHOST
Acre versus Acco.
CornHOST
Seyfed versus Tidzfat.
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Herman PoppleberryHOST
And every
CornHOST
exception is a place where someone will disagree.
CornHOST
Why is Jerusalem an exception but not Jaffa? Why is Acre an exception but not Ashkelon? The rule is clear.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The exceptions are politics.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
That was the template.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
Midtown Jerusalem is four residential towers, plus an office hub and a hotel on the old Sharazetic site, 17 dunams at Jaffa and Agrippa's, delivery target June 2030.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
They're preserving the 1902 hospital building as a hotel called I Imagine.
Hilbert FlumingtopCORRESPONDENT
The marketing says Manhattan Standard Luxury, turnkey 50-square-meter two-room units, penthouses up to 150 square meters.
Baruch KormanHOST
To bring and what did they do? to bring wood, what type of wood? Cedar wood, from Lebanon to the sea.
Baruch KormanHOST
And where? Well, everyone knows that the ancient port for Israel is in a place called Jaffa.
Baruch KormanHOST
Now, I realize that many people call it Jaffa, but if we look at what's said here, it is the word Jaffa.
Baruch KormanHOST
This is that ancient port city, the same port that Jonah departed from in disobedience.
Baruch KormanHOST
And it says, according to, notice what the scripture says, according to, and we have the word Rishayon, which is the license.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The word of Hashem came to Jonah son of Amittai, "Get up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come up before me." Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from before Hashem.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He went down to Jaffa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of Hashem.
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The Lord hurled a great wind onto the sea, and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The sailors were afraid, and each man cried out to his God.
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Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
I headed to Jaffa next.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
Once a Palestinian city, it's now melded into the metropolitan city of Tel Aviv.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
I was here to meet Kobe, the Jewish frontman of Israeli metal band Orphaned Land, who uses their music to champion coexistence.
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Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
The global Jewish community was sending charitable monies, halukah, to support immigrants.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
Support that continues to this day.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
And W.F. Sterling, governor of Jaffa, witnessed Zionists pushing change on all fronts.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Palestine was officially a trilingual country, and every public notice had to be issued in three languages.
Fin TaylorHOST
I don't know.
Fin TaylorHOST
Um, so he gets to Jaffa in what would now be, uh, Israel?
Horatio GouldHOST
Yes.
Fin TaylorHOST
Maybe.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, "Arise and go to Nineveh, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me." But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish- Wow ...
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Joppa is Tel Aviv.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
And he found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Dag Heward-MillsHOST
Amen.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
He marches.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
He takes back most of the coastline, again, of what would be modern-day Israel, approximately, okay? And he gets to what I think it would be Jaffa.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
And I think Jaffa to Jerusalem, approximately like 25, 30 miles, and Jerusalem.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
It's just a debate.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
Are they going to try to march to Jerusalem and take it or not? And tactically, Richard knows that even if they take Jerusalem, he doesn't think they can hold it.
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