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Tel Aviv is bustling again, yet Jaffa, its older sister with a large Arab community, remains a ghost town. In this mixed borough, the effect of the war is palpable every day

Windows covered with plastic sheet and repair workers are common sights around the Jaffa playground where a missile fired from Yemen landed in mid-December. Given the dizzying pace of events in Israel, the incident seems like a distant memory – but for those forced to live in the middle of the destruction, the situation has become unbearable

The IDF said more than one IDF missile defense system failed to thwart the attack in Jaffa ■ Netanyahu to Wall Street Journal: 'I'm not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas' ■ Medics in Gaza: Israeli airstrike on home in north Gaza kills ten ■ Syrian shot in the leg while protesting IDF's presence in the DMZ along Syrian-Israeli border; IDF: Soldiers 'identified a threat' ■ Palestinian Health Ministry: 37-year-old man killed by IDF fire near West Bank city of Jenin ■ Here's what you need to know 442 days into the war

Café Yafa in Jaffa is more than a bookstore, more than a café, more than a restaurant. A Palestinian institution that has restored some of what Jaffa once was