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Tel Aviv- Jaffa Located on the Mediterranean Sea , Tel Aviv-Jaffa is busy , noisy , and packed with people , cars , and buses . There are important differences between the ancient section of the city called Jaffa , pronounced Yafo in Hebrew , and the section called Tel Aviv , which is thoroughly modern . Jaffa’s port is thousands of years old . In fact , ships carrying the cedar trees from Lebanon that were used to build the Temple in Jerusalem were unloaded in Jaffa . By 1909 , Jaffa had become so overcrowded that a group of 60 Jewish families set up tents on the sand dunes to the north . This community mushroomed into Tel Aviv , which eventually became Israel’s business , cultural , and sports center . In 1949 Jaffa was made part of Tel Aviv , and the city’s official name became Tel Aviv-Jaffa . The Bible describes how the ancient Jews returned to Israel from Babylonia—which is now Iraq—and rebuilt the Temple . “ They also gave money to the stone cutters and to the carpenters , and food , and drink , and oil , to those of Zidon and Zor to bring cedar trees from Lebanon by sea to Jaffa” ( Ezra 3 : 7 ) .
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