Family Photos From the Middle East
Two sisters and a brother, Jaffa / Tel Aviv, circa 1917
The children in the photo on the left side includes my father and his two sisters. On the right, the same sibling are shown as young adults. My father's family moved from the old city of Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in 1912.
The photo of the children was taken around the time when the entire Jewish population of Jaffa and Tel Aviv (including my grandparents, and their young children) were expelled from their homes in April 1917 by the rulers of the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman Empire ruled over the Middle East from about 1517 until about the end of 1917.The expelled people were able to return to their homes in November 1917 when the British received the Mandate over parts of the Middle east including the Land of Israel.
