Balady citron (Arabic: أترج بلدي‎) or Israeli citron (Hebrew: הָאֶתְרוֹג הַפַּלֶשְׂתִּינִי‎), is a variety of citron, or etrog, grown in Palestine and Israel, for food of the Palestinian cuisine, and also for Jewish ritual purposes.Balady (Arabic: بلدي‎) is Arabic for "native." Local Arab farmers began using this name in the mid-19th century to distinguish this variety from the Greek citron, which was cultivated along the Jaffa seashore.