Mixing and Unmixing in the Oriental Ghettos

In April 1934, Moshe (born Musa) Levi Nachum was elected as the Jewish representative in the Jaffa municipality. Levi was elected thanks to the support of the Jewish and some of the Arab residents of two neighborhoods that stood on the frontier between Jaffa and Tel Aviv: the Yemenite Quarter (hereafter Kerem Hatemanim, which literally means the Yemenite vineyard) and Neve Shalom. Levi listed three main goals for his term in office: to support and protect poor and abandoned children; to guarantee the social and cultural rights of the Jewish inhabitants of Jaffa in return for the municipal taxes they