Dec 27 Jaffa - near the old city

Sheikh Bassam abu Zayid square (actually it is a circle with a garden in it) was on the way to the Old City. The Sheikh was, as this Haaretz article states, a beloved  iman of the main mosque in Jaffa ¬ the Mahmoudiye, who died in about 2008. If this is the case then probably the garden was started long before the circle was named in 2010) . The olive tree looks to be at least 30 years old (although it is possible it was transplanted).

Behind the wall is a garden and cemetery. The cemetery is, I think, divided into Muslim, Christian and Jewish sections. Some of those from each religion died in the 1921 riots (about 50 Jews and 50 Arabs, including both Muslims and Christians died during these riots). I think the cemetery also has some of the graves of victims of the 1929 massacre in Hebron (all of the 75 or 76 victims of this were Jewish but only a few were buried in Jaffa).