Yehud (Hebrew: יְהוּד) is a city in the Central District of Israel that is part of the joint municipality of Yehud-Monosson.

[3] During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.

[4] In 1932, during the British Mandate, Yehud was renamed to Al-'Abbasiyya,[5][6] supposedly because its Arab inhabitants did not want its name to be connected to the Jewish people.

The Neve Monosson Local Administration was granted municipal status as an autonomous borough (vaad rova ironi) by the Interior Minister in 2005 as a condition of the merger plan.

[citation needed] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was uniformly Jewish.

[citation needed] Yehud serves as the base of the large Africa Israel Investments company[11] majority owned by Lev Leviev.