Azor


Azor is a small town in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, on the old Jaffa-Jerusalem road southeast of Tel Aviv. Established in 1948 on the site of the depopulated Palestinian village of Yazur, Azor was granted local council status in 1951. In it had a population of, and has a jurisdiction of.

Etymology

Azor was named for the ancient city of Azur, preserved in the name of the Palestinian village of Yazur. The council of the new village named it Mishmar HaShiv'a in honour of seven Jewish soldiers killed near there in 1948, but the government committee in charge of assigning names forced them to change it to Azor on the grounds that preserving Biblical names was more important. However, another new village nearby was later named Mishmar HaShiv'a.

History

See on the page of the preceding Palestinian village, Yazur.

Notable residents