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Hassan Bek Mosque from our hotel room

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The Hassan Bek Mosque was built in 1916, by Jaffa's Turkish-Arab governor of the same name. At the time, Arab Jaffa and the recently-founded Jewish-Zionist Tel-Aviv were both competitively expanding northwards and seeking to block each other;[citation needed] the mosque was part of Manshiye, Jaffa's northernmost neighbourhood which spread northwards along the Mediterranean seashore. Some years after its construction, Tel-Aviv's Allenby Street was extended to the seashore some distance north of the mosque, blocking further Arab construction.[citation needed] According to Yosef Nahmias, former member of the Irgun unit which conquered the area in April 1948, he and his men planted demolition charges in the Hassan Bek Mosque immediately upon its capture and prepared to blow it up, but this was strictly vetoed by his commander Menachem Begin (future Israeli PM ).[1]

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