Yehud was founded in 1948. In 1950 it was declared the first local council after the establishment of the State of Israel, and in 1995 it was declared a city.
Origin of the name “Yehud”:
Yehud is a historical name from the Bible – “And Yehud and Bene-Braq and Gat-Rimmon” (Book of Joshua 19:45).
Meaning of the City Emblem:
The decision on the emblem of the city was made at a meeting of the City Council in 1951.
The emblem includes various motifs:
The lion – Symbol of the tribe of Judah, son of Jacob, who, according to tradition, is buried in the Independence Park.
The chains – The lion breaking the chains symbolizes the liberation of Yehud from foreign conquerors.
The plow – Represents a rural settlement where agriculture and farming take place.
The buildings with chimneys – A settlement that includes industrial and employment areas.
The date palm – A tree that bears sweet fruit, mentioned in the Bible and one of the seven species.
Yehud was first settled by a Jewish population on the ruins of the Arab village of Yehudiyya after its Arab inhabitants fled in late 1948 during the War of Independence.
The population which resettled there, was mostly of Yemenite, Turkish descent (Ladino speakers) and Holocaust survivors from Poland (mainly from the Bialystok region). The names of both the Arab village and the Jewish settlement established on its ruins preserve the name of an existing settlement at this place, on the border of the tribe of Dan, near the territory of the tribe of Judah (Book of Joshua 19:45).
The first immigrants settled in the abandoned village houses that formed the center of the settlement, and new neighborhoods were built around it.
In 1950 Yehud was declared the first local council established after the establishment of the State of Israel, and in 1995 it was declared a city.
In the 1990s, Yehud underwent significant development with the arrival of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. In addition, the city underwent significant expansion with the establishment of the prestigious Savionim neighborhood in 1992-1995. Prior to its construction, the neighborhoods of Kiryat Bialystok, Givat Ovadia, and Neve Oved were established with high socio-economic populations.
Milestones in the History of the Settlement:
July 10, 1948 – Liberation of Yehudiyya by the IDF forces in “Operation Danny”.
March 12, 1950 – Declaration of Yehudiyya as the first local council in the state of Israel, by Interior Minister Chaim Moshe Shapira in a ceremony held in the town. At this ceremony, the name of the town was changed from Yehudiyya to the biblical name “Yehud”.
November 16, 1995 – Declaration of Yehud as a city by Interior Minister Ehud Barak, in a ceremony held at the Minister’s office in Ramat Gan.
October 28, 2003 – Merger of the Yehud Municipality with the Neve Monosson Municipality (municipal elections).
Yehud was first settled by a Jewish population on the ruins of the Arab village of Yehudiyya after its Arab inhabitants fled in late 1948 during the War of Independence.
The population resettled there was mostly of Yemenite, Turkish descent (Ladino speakers) and Holocaust survivors from Poland (mainly from the Bialystok region). The names of both the Arab village and the Jewish settlement established on its ruins preserve the name of a settlement that existed at this place, on the border of the tribe of Dan, near the territory of the tribe of Judah (Book of Joshua 19:45).
The first immigrants settled in the abandoned village houses that form the center of the settlement, and new neighborhoods were built around it.
In 1950 Yehud was declared the first local council established after the establishment of the State of Israel, and in 1995 it was declared a city.
In the 1990s, Yehud underwent significant development with the arrival of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. In addition, the city underwent significant expansion with the establishment of the prestigious Savionim neighborhood in 1992-1995. Prior to its construction, the neighborhoods of Kiryat Bialystok, Givat Ovadia, and Neve Oved were established with high socio-economic populations.
November 14, 2005 – Declaration of renaming the city of Yehud “Yehud-Monosson”.
Avraham Giron 1948 – 1951
Avraham Altalf 1951 – 1961
Saadia Chatucha 1961 – 1985
Mordechai Linik 1985 – 1993
Shlomo Bakshi 1993 – 1998
Uzi Meir 1998 – 2003
Yossi Ben David 2003 – 2013
Yaela Machlis 2013 – present
Neve Monosson is a communal settlement with the legal status of an Urban Neighborhood Committee with local administration, located in the city of Yehud-Monosson.
The cornerstone of the settlement was laid in December 1953 at the initiative of Fred Monosson, a Zionist philanthropist from Boston, USA, who wanted to establish a settlement for the workers of the Lod airport so that they could live close to their workplace.
Origin of the name:
The settlement was named after its founder. The name “Ephraim” is a Hebrew form of the name “Fred”, as Ben Gurion objected to a foreign name.
Historical Background of Neve Monosson:
The first families moved to the settlement in 1955, and over the years some 3,000 more residents joined them.
In the 1970s, the settlement expanded with hundreds of families in single-family homes and apartment buildings (Tamar Street), including families of El Al pilots, which contributed to its prestigious image.
In the 1980s and 1990s, many self-employed families moved to the settlement. In recent years, there has been a noticeable trend toward building large private homes for wealthy new families, rather than the small “Jewish Agency” houses that characterized the settlement’s early days.
The Fred Monosson House now serves as the local administration of Neve Monosson.
The settlement is crossed by the Ono Stream, an ephemeral stream.
Today: Neve Monosson has a community elementary school with a junior high school, kindergartens, a scout troop (Troop “Maccabees” Neve Monosson, founded in 1964), a swimming pool, a recreation club with tennis courts, a gym and sauna, a geriatric community center, a community library, a large event hall for hundreds of participants, a dance studio, and a spacious cultural center designed by architect Eli Shapira and completed in 1994.
In 2003, as part of the Ministry of the Interior’s policy to reduce the cost of municipal services in the Ono Valley region, the Yehud Municipality and the Neve Monosson Local Council established a joint umbrella municipality, the Yehud-Monosson Municipality.
In practice, the umbrella municipality functions as the municipality of Yehud, while Neve Monosson enjoys social-communal autonomy within a local administration framework and purchases statutory municipal services from Yehud, such as the administration of compulsory education, welfare, municipal engineering, treasury, as well as basic services such as road maintenance, lighting and cleaning, garbage collection and gardening.
The city has a well-developed industrial zone, which includes aircraft manufacturing plants and the international hi-tech company HP. The city is also home to the Yehud Comprehensive High School, which serves the region and draws students from Yehud, Neve Monosson, Savion, Ganei Yehuda, Magshimim, Bnei Atarot, Beit Arieh, Ali Zahav, Rinnatya, Mazor, Kfar Truman and more.
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