Summary
Jaffa attorney and Islamic-Christian Society activist since the 1920s whose attempt to live in Jaffa for medical treatment, practise law and rejoin the city’s Islamic Council ended in a military governor’s expulsion order back to his plantation near Jaljuliyya, a Supreme Court rejection on 26 May 1950, and his emigration to Libya — “the tragic affair” with which Chapter 6’s part 6 portion closes (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.231-234).
Details
- Al-Ayyubi, elderly, asthmatic for fifteen years and with urologic problems for four years, was attacked by thieves at his plantation 150 metres from the Jordanian border in August 1949 and travelled to Jaffa for treatment on a permit under article 125 of the 1945 defence (emergency) regulations, staying on at his brother’s house on permits renewed from time to time (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.233).
- When his last permit expired on 31 October 1949 the military governor objected to his staying, and on 2 March 1950 ordered him under article 110 to leave Jaffa and return to the plantation (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.233-234).
- His Supreme Court case, submitted 30 March 1950, was decided by Judge Shimon Agranat and colleagues: the judges said they did not examine the security justifications and found no technical administrative error — unlike the Ahmad Abu-Laban case — and rejected the request on 26 May 1950 (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.233-234).
- MK Moshe Aram’s Knesset questions of 29 May 1950 exposed, in Manna’s reading, the retaliatory grounds — al-Ayyubi’s bid for a law licence and his Islamic Council membership; Ben-Gurion answered only that the matter must be left to the judiciary (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.234).
- Al-Ittihad had reported that al-Ayyubi “recently sold all his belongings in the country and immigrated to Libya,” giving him as an example of the policy of encouraging Arab emigration to Libya (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.232).
Related pages
Nakba and Survival, Jaffa, The Triangle, Ahmad Abu-Laban, British Emergency Regulations