Editing Tel Aviv (section)

===Jaffa===
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[[File:ISR-2013-Aerial-Jaffa-Port_of_Jaffa.jpg|thumb|Ancient port of [[Jaffa]] where, according to the [[Bible]], [[Jonah]] set sail into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] before being swallowed by a fish<ref>{{cite book |title=Israel |first=Sue |last=Bryant |publisher=New Holland Publishers |date=2008 |page=72 |edition=fourth |isbn=978-1-84773-012-1}}</ref>|left]]
The [[walled city]] of [[Jaffa]] is modern-day Tel Aviv-Yafo's only urban centre that existed in early modern times. Jaffa was an important port city in the region for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows signs of human settlement there starting in roughly 7,500 BC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.palyam.org/About_us/displaySOHarticle?name=Jaffa&id=t00102b&bl=b00102b |title=Jaffa |access-date=31 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313073111/http://www.palyam.org/About_us/displaySOHarticle?name=Jaffa&id=t00102b&bl=b00102b |archive-date=13 March 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The city was established around 1,800 BC at the latest. Its natural harbour has been used since the [[Bronze Age]]. By the time Tel Aviv was founded as a separate city during [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule of the region, Jaffa had been ruled by the [[Canaan]]ites, [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptians]], [[Philistines]], [[Israelites]], [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyrians]], [[Neo-Babylonian Empire|Babylonians]], [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]], [[Phoenicia]]ns, [[Ptolemies]], [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucids]], [[Hasmonean dynasty|Hasmoneans]], [[Roman Empire|Romans]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]], [[Caliphate|the early Islamic caliphates]], [[Crusades|Crusaders]], [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubids]], and [[Mamluk]]s before coming under Ottoman rule in 1515. It had been fought over numerous times. The city is mentioned in ancient Egyptian documents, as well as the [[Hebrew Bible]].

Other ancient sites in Tel Aviv include: [[Tell Qasile]], [[Tel Gerisa]], [[Abattoir Hill]], [[Tel Hashash]], and [[Tell Qudadi]].

During the [[First Aliyah]] in the 1880s, when Jewish immigrants began arriving in the region in significant numbers, new Jewish neighborhoods were founded outside Jaffa on the current territory of Tel Aviv. The first was [[Neve Tzedek]], founded in 1887 by [[Mizrahi Jews]] due to overcrowding in Jaffa and built on lands owned by [[Aharon Chelouche]].<ref name="Elkayam-1990"/> Other neighborhoods were [[Neve Shalom (neighborhood)|Neve Shalom]] (1890), [[Yafa Nof (neighborhood)|Yafa Nof]] (1896), [[Achva (neighborhood)|Achva]] (1899), [[Ohel Moshe (neighborhood)|Ohel Moshe]] (1904), [[Kerem HaTeimanim]] (1906), and others. Once Tel Aviv received city status in the 1920s, those neighborhoods joined the newly formed municipality, now becoming separated from Jaffa.