This time, we started in Yafo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel, in increments. «] Reference

We are not fighting in Tel Aviv or in Haifa or in Yafo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: President Clinton Vows to Hold USS Cole Attackers Accountable; Israeli Prime Minister Barak Defends Military Action Against Palestinians - October 12, 2000] Reference

The name Jaffa — or Yafo — seemed to be central to the argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Jerusalem]

The names of the towns were familiar from religious school: Yafo, Jericho, Beersheba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Avengers by Rich Cohen] Reference

Not quite sure what happened, but somehow I never made it, and wound up buying my first kippah on Yafo street instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Gates - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference

Mine is located in Jaffa (Yafo), once (meaning before 1948) “The Bride of the Sea”, now a slummy southern Tel Aviv suburb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Israel: “Ajami” Reveals Nuanced Look at Israeli Society] Reference

Went to hear a friend, Yosefa Raz, read from her new book of poetry, In Exchange For A Homeland at Timol Shilshom, a cafe off of Yafo street that specializes in great cultural events.    From Wordnik.com.  [poems and photos - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference

Like Menkes 'women, he lives in the periphery of mainstream society -- in Yafo, a predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, where many Arab families maintain their ancestral houses within a barely veiled atmosphere of tension caused by racial and religious friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natasha Subramaniam: Searching for Redemption in Nina Menkes' Dissolution] Reference

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa (Yafo in Hebrew).    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Jaffa (or Yafo) is an ancient city which has served as a port city without interruption for thousands of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

The Arab population is concentrated in Jaffa - Yafo in Hebrew - and the two are merged under the formal Hebrew name Tel Aviv-Yafo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference

The Arab population is concentrated in Jaffa -- Yafo in Hebrew -- and the two are merged under the formal Hebrew name Tel Aviv-Yafo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salon] Reference

A few bigger protests have happened in Yafo on Monday and at the cinema last Saturday, and there is a large one planned for tomorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [English-writing Israeli-bloggers] Reference

Tel Aviv's status as the region's most creative, liberal and tolerant city received was furthered when Yafo joined the municipality in 1949.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs] Reference

Thus place names, including those of mixed or Arab towns like Yaffa (Jaffa) or Shafa'amr, should be publicly spelled in Arabic (!) according to their Hebrew form - Yafo or Shefar'am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiwar.com Original] Reference

Today, Jaffa's visitors and residents who care to take a look at the structure see a Hebrew-language plaque that states "In Memory of the Heroes who Fell in the Battle to Liberate Yafo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarkismo.net] Reference

On that day, several dozen families gathered on the sand dunes on the beach outside Yafo to allocate plots of land for a new neighborhood they called Ahuzat Bayit, later known as Tel Aviv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs] Reference

It is also a city of refuge for Arab gays and lesbians rejected by the conservative societies in which they have grown up, though the Arab population is mostly concentrated in the neighboring city of Jaffa, or Yafo in Hebrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Weekly] Reference

Ariel Kappon, Director General of the City of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, "Tel Aviv-Yafo Development Projects".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

So now when I go to my used English-language bookstore of choice Sefer v’Sefel, off Yafo by Ben Yehuda I just hit the Classics section, and for some reason seem to be drawn to the 20th c. stuff more than the older stuff, mostly.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 March - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference

ZackTaylor.ca reported Tuesday: “Rumors are going around that MTV is looking to film a Jersey Shore style show in Israel – No further details have been announced, but according to our ZackTaylor.ca insider at the network, the show ‘will follow a bunch of Reform American-Jewish teenagers over a summer in Tel Aviv-Yafo….”.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Jersey Shore” Porn Parody] Reference

And yet, walking home from the Old City–I went to Robinson’s Arch, heard Eicha with the Masortiim, felt the cool white stones buzzing, and the energy was pouring from my hands–through a darkened Yafo street, past all the bus stops and cafes and clothing stores, this strange feeling of being suspended between permanence and impermanence, destruction and life really hit.    From Wordnik.com.  [9 Av - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference

Arab from Yafo all experienced such assaults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference