Ethnic segregation in Tel-Aviv - Jaffa

THE SOCIO-SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAFFA–TEL AVIV: The emergence and fade-away of ethnic divisions and distinctions

This paper examines how a cognitive boundary with no physical presence has affected life in the cities of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, not only during its time of existence (1921-1950) but many decades after it was erased from all official documents. In 1921, the national aspirations of Jews in Jaffa, embraced by the local British Mandate government, triggered a segregation process that resulted in an o...

Tel Aviv University

Tel-Aviv University

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Tel Aviv University

We all have strong intuitions about a connection between Coordination and the notion of "equivalence" (Hebrew: , תוליקש). This is reflected by the fact that researchers often use terms like ‘parallelism’, ‘similarity’, or ‘symmetry’ when providing structural definitions of coordinated constructions (e.g., Azar 1977; Haspelmath, 2007; Van Valin 1990). Certain questions, such as the following, re...

Institutional - Constitutional Change and Political Behavior : The Municipal Elections in Tel - Aviv - Jaffa ( 1993 ) and Split Ticket Voting

The phenomenon of split ticket voting is intriguing, and has partially been explicated in the scientific literature. Studies have offered several inconclusive reasons why a voter may decide to split his/her vote, and to support rival candidates, and opposing political parties. The candidate’s visibility, on the one hand, and partisan identification, on the other hand, have been the most cited e...