Jewish Community in Yaffo (Jaffa)

Jaffa was not yet significantly developed during this time, whereas Ascalon and Tyre were more active merchant ports. The town consisted of a fortress with iron-clad gates. 

Jaffa is mentioned in a letter written in Judeo-Arabic from Fustat, Egypt, to Jerusalem, as one of the cities dealing with a conflict involving a man named Nathan ben Avraham, attesting to a Jewish community living there at the time.