Daniel Kafri’s sculpture stands at the top of Old Jaffa hill, overlooking the entire coastline of Tel Aviv. Its gate shape symbolizes Jaffa’s historic role as the main port of entry into the country. The gate depicts three biblical stories, all dealing with God’s promise of the land to the Jewish people: the binding of Isaac by his father Abraham, Jacob’s dream ladder, and on the top part, the conquest of Jericho. The park all around us used to be covered with the narrow, winding alleys just we’d expect to find in a place like Old Jaffa. Unfortunately, the British blew it all up in the 30’s. This was done to allow for better military control over rioting Arabs, during the Great Arab Revolt 1936-1939. The place sat in ruins for years, until finally getting a restoration as part of Jaffa’s renewal, and planted with salt-and-wind resistant plants.

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