... administrative center for the banks, political parties, news organization, and foreign embassies. Tel Aviv and Jaffa sit next to each other. Jaffa is the old city of Joppa, one of the oldest cities in the Holy Land. The city of Joppa is referenced many ...

... police said they were not sure if the woman intended to kill herself or if the bomb exploded prematurely as she walked along Jaffa Street, the main commercial strip in west Jerusalem. In Lebanon, the Al-Manar television station run by the militant Hezbollah ...

... the normal bustle of activity ground to a halt when sirens went off at 10 a.m. Thursday. Cars and buses idled in crowded Jaffa Street and passengers waiting for buses rose from their benches. In a new school in the isolated Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar ...

... back now, I said to myself as I pulled into the rush-hour traffic on Highway 1, a modern, multi-laned thoroughfare to Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Because I had to read the road signs, which are in Hebrew, Arab and English, I drove in the right lane as ...

... has been the target of suicide attacks in the past, including in 1997. Just up the block, on the corner of King George and Jaffa streets, a suicide bomber blew himself up last summer in a crowded pizzeria, killing himself and 15 diners. An Israeli official ...

... long arm of terrorism. Call it economic terrorism." Others in the group are no more sanguine, she said. A painter from Jaffa closed his studio two months ago. The trip to the United States was to help establish a nest egg to reopen after tourists started ...

... her wish. She was not the first woman to commit such an act. That "honor" goes to Wafa Idris, who detonated herself on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in January 2002, killing an elderly Israeli man and wounding many more. Her act was praised throughout the ...

... workers. Shoppers staggered away from the site of the blasts, their faces covered in blood. Dozens of ambulances lined up along Jaffa Road, one of Jerusalem's busiest streets, to carry away the dead and injured. Several children were seriously hurt. A ...