Yehud

Yehud is a town in the Central District in Israel this is part of the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson. In 2007, Yehud's population changed into approximately 30,000. Yehud is referred to inside the Bible in a listing of cities within the place. The Aramaic term Yehud refers to a province below the Persian empire, Yehud Medinata, within the region of what became more or less the Kingdom of Judah which issued Yehud Coinage, small silver cash inscribed with the 3 letters "Yhd". The actual size of Yehud in the course of this time remains debated with the aid of students. Yehud's constituency also stays debated.

In later centuries Yehud became the Arab city of al-Yehudiya, additionally known as al-'Abbasiyya. Parts of contemporary Yehud are located on the land of al-'Abbasiyya, which have become depopulated within the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The town changed into repopulated within the early Nineteen Fifties via Ladino-speaking Jews of Turkish extraction and subsequently also by means of Jews from Bialystok, Poland and other components of the Diaspora. The metropolis greatly expanded in later years, evolved an business and hi-tech location with businesses which include IAI and Mercury Interactive and attracted lots of teachers and experts in new, distinctly invested neighborhoods consisting of Givat Avia and Kiryat HaSavyonim.