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It is now called Jaffa, and is built on a rocky mount 116 feet high at the edge of the sea. |
| Tel Aviv-Jaffa on the Mediterranean coast is today Israel's major and largest metropolitan center. Jaffa has a long history, but Tel Aviv is a comparatively new city founded in 1909. In Old Testament times, David and Solomon occupied Jaffa and used it as a port to receive timber from Lebanon. |
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Photo Courtesy of Corel
(from Bible Photos of the Holy Land - Biblesoft)