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Jaffa Clock Tower
is a
clock tower
on
Yefet Street
at the northern entrance of
Jaffa
, an ancient city now part of
Tel Aviv
, Israel. The tower, which was constructed by the
Ottoman Empire
between 1900 and 1903, is made of
limestone
. It incorporates two clocks, as well as a plaque commemorating the Israelis killed in the battle for the town in the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
.
Photograph:
Andrew Shiva
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