The outcome was that the real estate deal was cancelled and the mosque returned to the hands of the Jaffa Muslim Community [REF].
Soon after title was handed over to the Jaffa Muslims, the mosque's minaret collapsed overnight in what was officially described as "an accident" but which was generally considered by Jaffa Arabs and left-wing Israelis to be a deliberate sabotage by extreme right groups and/or veterans of 1948.