אשדוד
| The city is one of five cities founded by the Philistines in ancient times and was the center of worship of the god Dagon. According to the Bible is in Ashdod that the Philistines took the Ark of the Covenant as a trophy in honor of Dagon, after a victory in Aphek against the Hebrews around -1050. The story mentions Ashdod major disasters due to the presence of the Ark to be transferred to Gath and returned to the tribes of Israel. In 1956, the modern city of Ashdod was built on the ruins of the ancient Philistine city and the village of Isdud, destroyed during the Palestine War of 1948. The majority of Arab residents of the village became Palestinian refugees. The city was inhabited in 1945 by 4620 Arabs and 290 Jewish. The city of Ashdod is one of the few deep water ports on the Mediterranean Sea. It became an important center for the Israeli and international navigation. Some 15 million tonnes of cargo per year spend annually Ashdod. The city itself is divided administratively into 17 districts. The growth of this city is the largest since the 1990s and the immigration of many Jews in the Diaspora. The city in 2005 over 200,000 inhabitants. |
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