Tel Aviv

Summary

The exclusively Jewish quarter/suburb north-east of Jaffa with its own town hall and municipality, described in the Haycraft Report as not unlike a small modern Continental suburb (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.20).

The sandy space between Menshieh and Tel Aviv was the scene of the confrontations on the morning of 1 May 1921 (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.20, 26).
The permitted Achduth Haavodah demonstration marched in Tel Aviv on 1 May; the M.P.S. procession collided with it at the Gymnasium and near Spector’s Hotel (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.26).
On 2 May, 39 rifles were in Tel Aviv (18 issued with Colonel Deedes’ consent for defence there only and others taken without authority), in the hands of demobilised Judean Battalion men in khaki; martial law required them handed over by 6 a.m. on 4 May (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.32-35).
Tel Aviv was never attacked, in the report’s statement (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.34). Its Town Hall telephone was called a fount of perpetual false rumours on 3 May (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.36, read in the original).

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