Jaffa

Jaffa (Arabic: يافا yāfā; Hebrew: יפו yāfō) is a city in the Palestinian Arab Republic, located on the coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea. With a population of approximately 1.33 million in the city proper and 2.45 million within the metropolitan area, it is the most populous city in Palestine. It is considered the economic capital of Palestine, and is also home to the second-largest port in the republic after Port Said. Jaffa has the highest per-capita popuation of Jews in Palestine, who represent almost a third of the total municipal population, mostly concentrated in and around the urban borough of Tel Aviv; the only other Palestinian city approaching this figure is Ariel, which is just over one-fourth Jewish, with the only communities with larger Jewish or Jewish-majority populations consisting of small towns, suburbs and especially kibbutzim.