Yehud
Yehud
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| • ISO 259 | Yhud |
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 Yehud
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| Coordinates: 32°2′0″N 34°53′0″E / 32.03333°N 34.88333°ECoordinates: 32°2′0″N 34°53′0″E / 32.03333°N 34.88333°E | |
| District | Central |
| Founded | 1953 |
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| • Type | City |
| • Mayor | Yaela Machlis (Yehud-Monosson) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,100 dunams (4.1 km2 or 1.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 25,604 |
| Name meaning | Named for Biblical location |
Yehud (Hebrew: יְהוּד) is a city in the Central District in Israel that is part of the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson. In 2007, Yehud's population is approximately 30,000 (including Neve Monosson – see below).
Yehud is mentioned in the Bible in a list of towns in the area ("and Yehud and Bnei Brak and Gat Rimon" - Book of Joshua 19, 45). The Aramaic term Yehud refers to a province under the Persian empire, Yehud Medinata, in the area of what was roughly the Kingdom of Judah which issued Yehud Coinage, small silver coins inscribed with the three letters "Yhd". The actual size of Yehud during this time remains debated by scholars (e.g., did it occupy the entirety of the previous kingdom, or was it much smaller). Yehud's constituency also remains debated (e.g., was it composed only of those Judeans who returned from Babylon, or did these intermix with "the people (already) in the land" – עם הארץ).
In later centuries Yehud became the Arab town of Al-Yehudiya (in literal Arabic: "place of the Jews"), also called Al-'Abbasiyya, but the Arab population left in its entirety during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The town was repopulated in the early 1950s by Ladino-speaking Jews of Turkish extraction and subsequently also by Jews from Białystok, Poland and other parts of the Diaspora. The town greatly expanded in later years, developed an industrial and hi-tech area with companies such as IAI and Mercury Interactive and attracted thousands of academics and professionals in new, highly invested neighborhoods such as Givat Avia and Kiryat HaSavyonim.
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