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The Jaffa Gate.
Tel Yafo (Jaffa Hill) had great strategic military importance in ancient age because his height (40 m above sea level) offering a privileged view of the harbor and around the city. The archaeological evidence shows that Jaffa was inhabited circa 7500 a. C. The natural port of Jaffa has been in use since the Bronze Age, and its first inhabitants probably Canaanites.
The city of Jaffa is mentioned in a letter of 1470 a. C. of ancient Egypt, glorifying conquest by Pharaoh Thutmose III, who hid armed warriors in large baskets and gift to the then governor of the Canaanite city. The city is also named in the Amarna letters under its Egyptian name Ya-Pho. In 1991, a replica of the gates of Egypt, under the name of Pharaoh Ramses II, was re-erected on its original site. some things The city was under Egyptian power until the year 800 a. C.
Jaffa is mentioned in the Torah is mentioned as one of the cities of the Hebrew Tribe of Dan (one of the Tribes of Israel), and hence the term "Gush Dana, which is used today for the coastal plain. Many descendants of Dan lived along the coast and made their living as seamen and mariners. In "Song of Deborah" prophesies the question: ''''''''''''''''": " Why do you want Dan to focus on ships'"
After the Canaanite and Philistine domination, King David and his son Solomon conquered Jaffa and its port used to get from Cedar City Tire used for building the First Temple. (II Chronicles 2:16) The city remained in the hands of Jews, even after the division of the Kingdom of Israel. In 701 a. C., the days of King Hezekiah (''''''), Sennacherib, king of Assyria, invaded the region of Jaffa.
It is also the place where the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Book of Jonah 1:3) and was the port of entry for the cedars of Lebanon for the Second Temple of Jerusalem (Book of Ezra 3:7).
After a period of occupation of the Babylonian Empire under the dominion of the Persian, Jaffa was occupied by the Phoenicians Tire. Defeated by Alexander the Great in the famous siege Tire is speculated that the city experienced the domination of the Kingdom of Macedonia before being controlled by the Empire Seleucida, although standing dispute by the Dinastia Ptolemaida ruling dynasty during the Hellenistic period in Egypt .
Jaffa was a port of the Empire Seleucida which was recovered by the Maccabees (1 Maccabees x.76, xiv.5). During the Roman repression of the Great Jewish Revolt, Jaffa was captured and burned by Cestius Gallus. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote Pharisee-eight thousand inhabitants were massacred. Pirates operating from the rebuilt port unleashed the wrath of Vespasian, who razed the city and erected a citadel in its place, installing a garrison in Rome.
In the New Testament (Book San Pedro) is told that the resurrection of the widow Tabitha (Dorcas, gr.) Happening in the city of Jaffa. Subsequently, according to the New Testament, Simon Peter had a vision in Jaffa in which the Lord told him that he should not distinguish between Jews and gentiles, while ordering the removal of restrictions on food ritual (kosher) followed by the Jews (Acts 10:10-16).

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