The development history of Jaffa

People lived here in 5 BC, and it became a famous port on the Mediterranean coast as early as 2 BC. Jaffa was first recorded in writing in the 15th century BC, during the reign of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, and was mentioned many times in the later Old Testament and New Testament. Above Jaffa Natural Harbor, there is a 37-meter-high hill, where archaeologists excavated the remains of human habitation in the 18th-16th century BC. Later, Israel built a unique small exhibition hall on this site to introduce the history and legends about Jaffa to people in detail.

Jaffa became more and more crowded due to the increasing population. In 199, a group of Jewish immigrants from Russia decided to leave the noisy and dirty environment in the city and set up a settlement called Abuzat Bait in the suburbs. In 191, the settlement was renamed Tel Aviv, which developed rapidly by leaps and bounds, and soon took the lead, and its status and influence soon surpassed that of the old town of Jaffa.

In p>1947, the United Nations resolution on the partition of Palestine suggested that Jaffa (with a population of 1, at that time, including 3, Jews) should be owned by Arabs; Tel Aviv (then population 23,) was owned by Jews. In 1948, Israeli troops occupied Jaffa, and Arabs in the city fled. In 195, Tel Aviv merged the old town of Jaffa and named it "Tel Aviv-Jaffa", which has been used ever since.