Following the cholera epidemic that broke out in Jaffa in 1902 and the need to bury the dead far from the city, an official permit was given by the Ottoman authorities for the burial of Muslims on the land.

[1] The Qadi Tawfiq Asaliya granted permission in 1963 to evacuate certain graves in the cemetery area in order to allow the construction of the hotel.

The mayor of Tel Aviv, Israel Rokach, aspired to establish a park on the camp grounds, a green lung overlooking the sea.

Towards the first Independence Day in 1949, half of the area of the Yona camp was cleared, and in April 1949 the first trees were planted on the grounds.

For four years, the Prime Minister and the Chief of Staff rejected Rokach's requests to evacuate the camp.

In the film, the lead character, Boaz (Yoav Reuveni) frequents the park for homosexual encounters.

Ilan Sheinfeld, a pioneering gay Israeli writer, also regularly mentioned the park in his poetry.

In his poem "Gan Porah", the park becomes a metaphorical garden representing male love in general, with the pleasure and terror involved in it.

The park is also the location of the Electric Cave in Yigal Mossinson's children's novels series, Hasamba.

Among the sculptures in the park are two bronze statues of Asa of Judah and Jehoshaphat (2000) by Boaz Vaadia, overlooking the sea.