Al-'Abbasiyya
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Tomb of Yehuda ben-Yaakov (Ar: Huda ibn-Yaaqub) in Yehud, originally a Muslim shrine, but today a Jewish one
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| Arabic | العبْاسِيّة/اليهودية |
| Also spelled | al-Abbasiya, al-Yahudiya, Yehudiya |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Coordinates | 32°01′51″N 34°53′25″E / 32.03083°N 34.89028°ECoordinates: 32°01′51″N 34°53′25″E / 32.03083°N 34.89028°E |
| Palestine grid | 139/159 |
| Population | 5,800 (1945) |
| Area | 20,540 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | May 4, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Yehud |
Al-'Abbasiyya (Arabic: العبْاسِيّة), also known as al-Yahudiya (Arabic: اليهودية), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was attacked under Operation Hametz during the 1948 Palestine War, and finally depopulated under Operation Dani. It was located 13 km east of Jaffa. Some of the remains of the village can be found today in the centre of the modern Israeli city of Yehud.
In 1596, Yahudiya appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had a population of 126 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops or fruit trees, sesame, and goats or beehives.
The French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called Yehoudieh, in 1863, and found it to have a population of more than 1,000 people. The houses were made of adobe bricks, several topped by palm leaves. Near a noria he noticed an ancient sarcophagus, placed there as a trough.
An Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that el- jehudie had a population of 835, in 246 houses, though the population count included men, only.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the place as "a large mud village, supplied by a pond, and surrounded by palm-trees." They also noted a ruined tank, or birkeh, to the south of the village.
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