Neve Ofer ( he, נווה עופר), previously known as Tel Kabir ( he, תל כביר) and Jaffa B ( he, יפו ב', Yafo Bet), is a residential neighbourhood in
Tel Aviv–Yafo
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
,
Israel. It was established in the late 1960s between
Abu Kabir
Abu Kabir ( ar, أبو كبير) was a satellite village of Jaffa founded by Egyptians following Ibrahim Pasha's 1832 defeat of Turkish forces in Ottoman era Palestine. During the 1948 Palestine war, it was mostly abandoned and later destroyed. ...
from the north, and Tell er-Rish (
Tel Giborim in
Holon
Holon ( he, חוֹלוֹן ) is a city on the central coastal strip of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa. ...
) from the south.
Initially the neighbourhood was named after
Tell El Kebir, the Egyptian hometown of the original settlers of Abu Kabir. On 26 April 1983, the neighbourhood was renamed after
Avraham Ofer
Avraham Offer ( he, אברהם עופר, 1922 as Avraham Hirsch – 3 January 1977) was an Israeli politician, famous for committing suicide following the eruption of a corruption scandal.
Biography
Ofer was born in the Chorostków shtetl in P ...
, the
Minister of Housing A Housing minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for Housing Policy.
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in 1974–1977.
The neighbourhood is frequently considered the southernmost in South Tel Aviv and not part of
Jaffa
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the b ...
, although the
Tel Aviv–Yafo Municipality considers it the easternmost in Quarter 7 (Jaffa).
Neve Ofer is the location of
Tasso Cemetery, established in 1943 by the Muslim community of Jaffa. This is the only Muslim cemetery in Tel Aviv–Yafo still in use today.
References
Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv
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