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Yehud is a city in the Central District of Israel that is part of the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson. In 2007, the city's population stood at approximately 30,000 people (including Neve Monosson – see below). [edit] History
The history of Yehud traces back thousands of years, with it seeing its first mention in the Bible in . It was later called Iudaea by the Romans. During the Arab-caliphate and Ottoman eras, it was known as Al-Yahudiya, and censuses showed its population as entirely Arab and Muslim. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west. This area was home to thousands of inhabitants in about 20 villages, who had at their disposal tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land. In 1932, during the British Mandate, Yehud was renamed to Al-'Abbasiyya, supposedly because its Arab inhabitants did not want its name to be connected to the Jewish people. The new name memorialized a sheikh named al-ʽAbbas who was buried in the town, while also alluding to the Abbasid Caliphate. Parts of Yehud are located on the land of the Palestinian village of al-ʽAbbasiyya, which became depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In June 2011, the city's officials announced they would undertake a massive construction project to replicate the old town square of the Swiss city of Lugano in the centre of Yehud, to reinvigorate commerce and tourism. The replica will be replete with neoclassical columns and colonnades. This project was scheduled to be finished and in fall 2016; it opened in early 2018 [edit] Research Tips
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