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La ciudad de Iaffo (Jaffa) tiene más de 5 mil años de antigüedad y es vecina a Tel Aviv. Fue ciudad del Antiguo Egipto, griega, el imperio otomano. Napoleón la destruyó.
It is mentioned four times in the Hebrew Bible, as one of the cities given to the Tribe of Dan (Book of Joshua 19:46), as port-of-entry for ... all the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 2:15), as the place from where the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Book of Jonah 1:3) and than as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for The Second Temple of Jerusalem (Book of Ezra 3:7). It was also an important city in the Arab Middle East. During the Crusades, it was the County of Jaffa, a stronghold of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
