Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town

The expulsion of the Arabs from Ramle in 1948, with the municipality building, now a museum, in the background.

Dr. Danna Piroyansky, author of the recently published Ramle Remade: The Israelisation of an Arab Town 1948-1967, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mixing of Jewish and Arab populations.

How did it come about in Ramle, a town in the south-eastern coastal plain that was 100 percent Arab Palestinian up until the 1948 War of Independence, and was subsequently populated with Jewish immigrants?

This is a segment from The Tel Aviv Review: Listen to the full show.

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