YAEL PERI
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    • ein Zirkel / A Pair of Compasses
    • Letters To A Grandfather Whom I Never Met
    • Split/Complete
    • Under Destructuin #1
    • Under Destructuin #2
    • Forgetabilia / ha'miffal
    • Forgetabilia / temple mount
    • the happiest of all arabs
    • The Land Lords
    • Bleached White City
    • Exile
  • Videos
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    • Pößneck | 2018 [DE]
    • Erfurt | 2017 [DE]
    • Jaffa | 2013 [IL]
    • USA, 2009
    • Miscellaneous
  • 2d
  • Community &Education
    • Qattan's Salon
    • The Voyage to Tahiti
    • Flesh & Stones Workshop
The Happiest of All Arabs | 2016
Installation | Documents taken from IDF archives describing the martial-law period in Jaffa
Dimensions |  A4 size papers

As part of an extensive research about the IDF's involvement in the real-estate market in my area of residence, I scanned documents of the Israeli Military Governance of Jaffa from the years 1948-1952. I used documents containing correspondence regarding two significant issues: the take-over of deported Palestinians' houses by the newly-created Israeli army in order to use them as military facilities, and inquiries about the original owners of those houses and their value estimates – with the prospect of selling them in the future.
In my work "The Happiest of all Arabs" I exhibit framed scans of chosen documents, bringing to light the army's capitalisation on those "Absentees' property"– the houses abandoned by their Palestinian owners in 1948.
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*the title is a quote from a report referring to the condition of the Palestinian population that remained in Jaffa after the establishment of the state of Israel.
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  • About
  • projects
    • ein Zirkel / A Pair of Compasses
    • Letters To A Grandfather Whom I Never Met
    • Split/Complete
    • Under Destructuin #1
    • Under Destructuin #2
    • Forgetabilia / ha'miffal
    • Forgetabilia / temple mount
    • the happiest of all arabs
    • The Land Lords
    • Bleached White City
    • Exile
  • Videos
  • Photography
    • Pößneck | 2018 [DE]
    • Erfurt | 2017 [DE]
    • Jaffa | 2013 [IL]
    • USA, 2009
    • Miscellaneous
  • 2d
  • Community &Education
    • Qattan's Salon
    • The Voyage to Tahiti
    • Flesh & Stones Workshop