With more than 4,000 years of ancient Jaffa, it is one of the oldest cities in the world. The origin of the name Jaffa is explained in various ways, and Jewish tradition holds that after the great flood of destruction subsided, Japheth, the son of Noah, who survived the disaster, established the city, and people named it 'Jaffa' for some reason, and the pronunciation slowly evolved into Jaffa.