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on the southwestern edge of the modern metropolis. The Israeli city, first known as Migdal , was founded in 1949 approximately 4 km inland from ancient Ascalon at the Palestinian town of al-Majdal . Its inhabitants had been exclusively Muslims and Christians, and the area had been allocated to Palestine in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; on the eve of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

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