Written by urban planner Jesse Fox in Haaretz, this article is a summary and review of Sharon Rotbard’s “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. » This controversial book challenges the idyllic founding myth of Tel Aviv’s « White City » by revealing the often untold story of the neglect and destruction of the « Black City » – the more disadvantaged areas of South Tel Aviv and Jaffa, generally populated by Arabs and Mizrahi Jews.