Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda
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| • ISO 259 | ʔor Yhuda | ||
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| Coordinates: 32°02′N 34°51′E / 32.033°N 34.850°ECoordinates: 32°02′N 34°51′E / 32.033°N 34.850°E | |||
| District | Tel Aviv | ||
| Founded | 1949 | ||
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| • Type | City (from 1988) | ||
| • Mayor | Liat Shochat | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 5,141 dunams (5.141 km2 or 1.985 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2015) | |||
| • Total | 36,164 | ||
| Name meaning | Judah's Light | ||
Or Yehuda (Hebrew: אוֹר יְהוּדָה, Arabic: أور یهودا) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. In 2015 it had a population of 36,164.
Or Yehuda is located on the site of the biblical town of Ono. A bit confusingly, the name of biblical Ono was wrongly inherited by another modern town located not far from Or Yehuda, namely Kiryat Ono.
Both the Canaanites and Israelites referred to the town as Ono (1 Chronicles 8:12), which name continued all throughout the First and Second Temple periods.
Jewish classical writings mention the city as being formerly enclosed by a wall. Kafr 'Ana was known as Onous in the Byzantine period.
During early Ottoman rule in Palestine, the revenues of the village of Kafr 'Ana were in 1557 designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. In 1596, Kafr 'Ana was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jerusalem ( liwa' ("district") of Jerusalem), with a population of 116. Villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, olives, and fruit, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives and vineyards.
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