Or Yehuda Settlement

Or Yehuda is an "Israeli" settlement covering an area of 5.1 square kilometers. Its population in 2007 was about 32,000 settlers.

The settlement was established in 1949 as a Zionist settlement on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian villages of al-Saqiya and Kafr Ana, both emptied of their residents during the 1948 war. The settlement was named after Rabbi Yehuda ben Shlomo Hai Alkalai.

The village of al-Saqiya:

Located 8.5 kilometers from Jaffa, it was built on uneven ground in the central coastal plain. Stone-paved roads passed through or near the village, connecting it to Jaffa, Lydda, Tel Aviv, and neighboring villages. In 1596, al-Saqiya was a village belonging to the Ramla subdistrict (in the Gaza district), with a population of 270 people. By the late nineteenth century, it had a well to its south and houses built of mudbrick clustered close together. In the final years of the British Mandate, cement buildings began to appear, alongside limited growth of the village. Its residents were Muslim, and a mosque was built there in the late Mandate period, in addition to a boys' elementary school established in 1936.

Sources:Due to the limited availability of Arabic sources, the following Hebrew sources were relied upon:

• The settlement's official website

• Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics

• Information on the villages of al-Saqiya and Kafr Ana from the website