In June, 1936 the Palestine at the time, , found in favour of the Jaffa Arab petitioners and, upholding the existing laws regarding demolitions, ruled against the Army's destruction of the Arab old city.
The construction of many and high-tech office buildings followed.
On 10 December 1948, the government announced the annexation to Tel Aviv of Jaffa's Jewish suburbs, the neighborhood of , the Arab village of and some of its agricultural land, and the Jewish 'Hatikva' slum.
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