Mixed cities

Mixed cities (Hebrew: עיר מעורבת) or Mixed towns is an Israeli term for cities in which both Israeli Jews and Arab citizens of Israel reside.

In 2014, around 8.4% of Israeli Arabs lived in officially mixed Jewish-Arab cities (excluding Arab residents in East Jerusalem), including Haifa, Lod, Ramle, Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Acre, Nof HaGalil, and Ma'alot Tarshiha.

It has been a topic of significant scholarly focus over many years, and since the Second intifada it became at the crux of social science scholarship in Israel.

History

Cities in the 1922 census of Palestine, at the start of Mandatory Palestine. Most cities were 96-100% Palestinian Arab; only five cities were significantly "mixed": Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Safad and Tiberias.

In the early 19th century, only Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias had small minority Jewish populations living alongside the majority Palestinian Arabs. These populations grew to become about half the cities’ populations by the start of the British Mandate. Immigration and settlement also took place around on outskirts of the cities of Jaffa (these outskirts later became known as Tel Aviv) and Haifa during the same period.

See also

• Arab localities in Israel

Bibliography

General

• Yacobi, H. (2009). The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-politics in a Mixed Community. Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-134-06584-4. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Klein, M.; Watzman, H. (2014). Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron. Hurst. ISBN 978-0-19-939626-9. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Monterescu, D.; Rabinowitz, D. (2016). Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-09531-6. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Shohamy, E.G.; Rafael, E.B.; Barni, M. (2010). "Linguistic Landscape in Mixed Cities in Israel from the Perspective of 'Walkers': The Case of Arabic". Linguistic Landscape in the City. Multilingual Matters. ISBN 978-1-84769-297-9. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Cohen, E. (1973). Integration Vs. Separation in the Planning of a Mixed Jewish-Arab City in Israel. Levi Eshkol Institute for Economic, Social and Political Research, Hebrew University. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• LeBor, Adam; Monterescu, Daniel; Rabinowitz, Dan; Sharfrnan, Daphna; Nachmias, Eli; Mansour, Johnny; Yacobi, Haim (2011). "Mixed Cities in Israel: Localities of Contentions". Israel Studies Review. 26 (1). Berghahn Books: 153–165. ISSN 21590389 21590370, 21590389. JSTOR 41804751. Retrieved 2022-05-12. {{cite journal}}: Check |issn= value (help)
• Karlinsky, Nahum (2021-08-09). "Revisiting Israel's Mixed Cities Trope". Journal of Urban History. 47 (5). SAGE Publications: 1103–1129. doi:10.1177/00961442211029835. ISSN 0096-1442.
• Tzfadia, E.; Yacobi, H. (2011). Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity. Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-136-72605-7. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Rabinowitz, Dan; Monterescu, Daniel (2008). "Reconfiguring the". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (2). Cambridge University Press: 195–226. ISSN 14716380 00207438, 14716380. JSTOR 30069610. Retrieved 2022-05-12. {{cite journal}}: Check |issn= value (help)
• Falah, Ghazi (1996). "Living Together Apart: Residential Segregation in Mixed Arab-Jewish Cities in Israel". Urban Studies. 33 (6). SAGE Publications: 823–857. doi:10.1080/00420989650011627. ISSN 0042-0980.
• Yiftachel, Oren; Yacobi, Haim (2003). "Urban Ethnocracy: Ethnicization and the Production of Space in an Israeli 'Mixed City'". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 21 (6). SAGE Publications: 673–693. doi:10.1068/d47j. ISSN 0263-7758.

Specific locations

• Monterescu, D. (2015). Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine. Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01683-6. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
• Shtern, Marik (2016). "Urban neoliberalism vs. ethno-national division: The case of West Jerusalem's shopping malls". Cities. 52. Elsevier BV: 132–139. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.019. ISSN 0264-2751.
• Zubi, Himmat (2018). "The Ongoing Nakba: Urban Palestinian Survival in Haifa". An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 182–208. ISBN 978-1-78699-351-9. Retrieved 2022-05-12. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Nahum Karlinsky, “The Limits of Separation: Jaffa and Tel Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story,” Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen (eds.), Tel-Aviv at 100: Myths, Memories and Realities (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2012): 138–64.