Kafr Jamal

Kafr Jammal (), is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the western edge of the West Bank. It is located about halfway between Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, and has a population of around 3,000. The village is mainly agricultural, and mostly raises olive and citrus crops. Kafr Jammal is at an altitude of 257 meters, and is bordered by Falamya in the west, Kafr Zibad in the east, Jayyous in the south, and Kafr Sur to the north.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

Ottoman era

Kafr Jammal was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared under that name in the tax registers as being in the ''Nahiya'' of Bani Sa'b, part of the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 17 households and 13 bachelors, all Muslims. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 11,074 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 140

In 1838, ''Kefr Jemmal'' was noted as a village in the ''Beni Sa'ab'' area, west of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
128
/ref> In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described ''Kefr Jemmal'' as "a small stone village on a knoll, with
cisterns."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Jammal had a population of 396 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p
28
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 499; 1 Christian and 498 Muslims, in 109 houses.Mills, 1932,
55
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In the 1945 statistics the population of Kafr Jammal was 690 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
21
/ref> with 14,945 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,702 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,451 were used for cereals, while 19 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

File:Kafr Jammal 1942.jpg, Kafr Jammal 1942 1:20,000, including Falama
File:Taiyiba 1945.jpg, Kafr Jammal 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

In 1961, the population of ''Kafr Jamal'' was 1,041.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p
27
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Post 1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Jammal has been under Israeli occupation.

Kafr Jammal enjoys good relations with neighboring territories, and heavy education and commercial exchange take place among them. The village is also notable for having a large diaspora outside the West Bank, mostly in Jordan, but also in Saudi Arabia and the United States. Kafr Jammal's population follow the Hanbali and Shafi'i fiqh (schools of Sunni Islam).

image:Downtown Kufr Jammal.jpg, Village center
image:Orange Crop Kufr Jammal.JPG, Orange crop
image:Cemetery Kufr Jammal.jpg, Local cemetery

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External links

Welcome To Kafr Jammal
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
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{{Tulkarm Governorate

Villages in the West Bank
Tulkarm Governorate
Municipalities of the State of Palestine