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Yalo is one of the woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 4, Yalo is located at the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the south by Gulina, on the west by the Tigray Region, on the north by the Administrative Zone 2, and on the east by Teru. The major town in Yalo is Dibina.
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 47,468, of whom 27,319 are men and 20,149 women; with an area of 822.75 square kilometers, Yalo has a population density of 57.69. While 790 or 1.66% are urban inhabitants, a further 9,730 or 20.50% are pastoralists. A total of 7,901 households were counted in this woreda, which results in an average of 6.0 persons to a household, and 8,105 housing units. 99.25% of the population said they were Muslim.
Yalo (, also transliterated Yalu) was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 kilometres southeast of Ramla. Identified by Edward Robinson as the ancient Canaanite and Israelite city of Aijalon, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan formally annexed Yalo along with the rest of the West Bank. Yalo's population increased dramatically owing to an influx of Palestinian refugees from neighbouring towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 war.
During the 1967 war, all the inhabitants of Yalo were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the village was destroyed, and Yalo and the entirety of Latrun were annexed from Jordan by Israel. Subsequently, with donations from Canadian benefactors, the Jewish National Fund built a recreational space, Canada Park, which contains the former sites of Yalo and two other neighbouring villages, Dayr Ayyub, and Imwas.