Behind the project Shawari’a Yafa (‘Streets of Jaffa’), is a mix of Arab and Jewish residents, who seek to commemorate Arab street names that were Hebraized by putting up additional street signs. An enterprise of the utmost importance
“A mountain doesn’t care what its name is,” said one of the key speakers at a seminar held at Tel Aviv University a decade ago about the overt and covert meanings in naming public places. While the lectures focused on things like “the erasure of Arab place names in Israel as a means of control and covering up the past,” it was quite obvious that, unlike the mountain, human beings do care about such things and that this naming process is an extension of politics in other ways.
