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Or Yehuda is a city in Israel’s Tel Aviv District, situated at an elevation of 30 meters above sea level. The settlement was established on January 1, 1950, replacing the former locality of Kafr 'Ana. It covers an area of 5.141 square kilometers and has a population of 36,900. The city operates under a city council and is located in the UTC+02:00 time zone.
Or Yehuda maintains twinned relationships with the administrative bodies of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Milwaukee. Its official name is אור יהודה. The city is part of the broader Tel Aviv region, as indicated by its administrative classification and geographic coordinates.
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Place details
- Locality
- אור יהודה
- Region
- מחוז תל אביב
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 36,813
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Iso 259
- ʔor Yhuda
- Country
- Israel
- District
- Tel Aviv
- Founded
- 3500 BCE (Earliest settlement) , 2000 BCE (Biblical city of Ono ) , 1955 (Israeli city)
- Type
- Mayor–council
- Body
- Municipality of Or Yehuda
- Mayor
- Liat Shochat
- Total
- 6,500 dunams (6.5 km ; 2.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 6,300/km (16,000/sq mi)
- Jews and others
- 99.8%
- Arabs
- 0.2%
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( IST )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( IDT )
- Name meaning
- Judah's Light
- Website
- www.oryehuda.muni.il
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Or Yehuda (Hebrew: אור יהודה, lit. 'Judah's Light') is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. Located in the Gush Dan metropolitan area, in 2024 it had a population of 41,130.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “פרדס חנה” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.