Israeli contractor plans Jewish-only residential project in Arab neighborhood

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Israeli contractor plans Jewish-only residential project in Jaffa - National Israel News | Haaretz

U.S. immigrant and newly religious contractor Yaakov Hayman says vision of private 'Pearl of Jaffa' project is 'for Jaffa to be Jewish.'

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A group of religious-Zionist Israelis committed to Judaizing Arab neighborhoods of Jaffa plans on building a new residential project that will cater to and be subsidized exclusively for Jews.

The project is being headed by a contractor named Yaakov Hayman, a secular-born religious U.S. immigrant to Israel who has spearheaded Jewish-only projects in recent years.

Hayman, a former resident of Itamar now living in Jerusalem, owned a construction company that exclusively employed Jewish workers. He currently manages a project in Jaffa managed by Be’emunah, a construction company catering to the religious-Zionist community.

The new project, called "the pearl of Jaffa," is Hayman's private initiative. Pamphlets distributed to the religious-Zionist community in recent weeks publicized "significant discounts on housing prices, walking distance from the beach promenade and a Sukkah balcony in each apartment."

Hayman plans to build 12 residential units on Yefet Street, Jaffa's busy main thoroughfare, on a plot where several dilapidated buildings now stand. Its owners are selling the plot for $1,516,010 (5.3 million shekels).

A tour for potential buyers was conducted Monday, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Hayman said the project is being marketed to the religious sector, but that any Jew could purchase an apartment if they commit to maintaining a religious-friendly atmosphere.

"The ultimate vision is for Jaffa to be Jewish," he said. "Any Jew who buys an apartment in Jaffa raises the chances of more Jews buying apartments here."

The potential buyers inquired about relations with Arab neighbors, to which Hayman's wife, Varda, replied: "There are both Arabs and Jews here. It seems like there are a lot of Arabs, because they make a lot of noise."

If Hayman succeeds in purchasing the plot, it will be inhabited within two years.

 

[elis]

It's what they have always done

Fake news

 

[VeeraBahadur]

Private construtors should be free to choose their customer.

 

[Archdemon]

What is wrong with that?

 

[RFS_Br]

Private construtors should be free to choose their customer.

No, they should not. If this is a civil construction, serving a civil purpose (residency), where there should not be any distinction between religions, there's no reason to discriminate. If anywhere in the world (specially in the Western world) residency permits discriminated against Jews, which is racism, the Zionists will be raising a hellstorm. The same principle applies to non-Jews. Not shocking an Indian can't understand that; go be a Zionist dhimmi in their lands if you'd like, but Israeli Arabs aren't to submit. cc @Archdemon

 

[VeeraBahadur]

No, they should not. If this is a civil construction, serving a civil purpose (residency), where there should not be any distinction between religions, there's no reason to discriminate. If anywhere in the world (specially in the Western world) residency permits discriminated against Jews, which is racism, the Zionists will be raising a hellstorm. The same principle applies to non-Jews. Not shocking an Indian can't understand that; go be a Zionist dhimmi in their lands if you'd like, but Israeli Arabs aren't to submit. cc @Archdemon

Their country their rules. If you have problem then write to UN or ask your government to get a resolution passed from UN . No need to get personal and bring in my country.

 

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Their country their rules. If you have problem then write to UN or ask your government to get a resolution passed from UN . No need to get personal and bring in my country.

Somehow I don't think this same philistine formula -- "their country their rules" -- you will willingly defend when people discuss, for example, Saudi discrimination against immigrants of your nationality and religion. It's only Israel that is to be defended forever and ever, I get that's how your kind thinks. And there's no need to write to the UN. Racial and religious segregationism is banned by the UN and by a number of international conventions to which Israel is a signatory. You don't get to brag about signing righteous agreements and then implement policies that go directly against their content. Israel, as you must know, is not above throwing a hissy fit at international fora whenever the ideology it was founded upon - Zionism - gets condemned as racism or it is accused of being an apartheid state. So: do not want Israel to be slammed as an apartheid? Don't behave as one. Specially as Israel and its defenders wouldn't just stand by if a country, any country, put into practice policies excluding Jews like it does its own Arab citizens. Do not want Israel and international Jewry to be seen as whiny hypocrites? Don't behave as one.