Jaffa

Jaffa (Arabic: يافا yāfā; Hebrew: יפו yāfō) is a port city in Palestine, located on the Mediterranean along the Palestinian coastal plain. It is the third-largest city in Palestine, after Port Said and Jerusalem, home to approximately 445,000 people, and one of the country's most important ports. It is part of the Jerusalem–Jaffa Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in Palestine, which has a total population of over 6 million people, almost one-third of Palestine's total population. Jaffa also has the highest per-capita popuation of Jews in Palestine, who represent almost half of the total population; the only other Palestinian city approaching this figure is Ariel, which is about one-third Jewish. From the independence of the State of Israel in 1948 until its occupation and annexation into Palestine in 1967, Jaffa was known officially as Tel Aviv, and was the largest city in Israel, serving as its seat of government due to the contested status of Jerusalem during this time. Following the 1967 Six-Day War and annexation, Tel Aviv was renamed Jaffa.