The project tries to reveal the true story of the hospital, and the Palestinian Dajani family. We contacted the relatives of Dr. Dajani, we explored the history and the family story. Finally we exposed it to the public in an exhibition. 

Dajani Hospital is located on Jerusalem Boulard in Jaffa. The building was designed in 1933 by the Architect Yitzhak Rapoport, one of the most prominent Jewish Bauhaus architects. Dr. Fuad Ismail Dajani (1890-1940) founded the hospital close to his house. The building served as a maternity and surgical hospital for the local population and the British officers. In 1948, the hospital was taken over by the Israeli army and the custodian of “Absentee Landlords”, while the Dajani family fled to Egypt and from there to Europe. In the 1950’s, the Jewish hospital “Zahalon” was built on its foundations. In 1980, the building becomes “Zahalon Geriatric Day Center”. Dajani’s private home still exists abandoned in the compound.