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Al-Murassas
Al-Murassas (), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 War on May 16, 1948. The village was attacked as part of Operation Gideon. History In 1596 Al-Murassas was a farm paying taxes to the Ottoman authorities. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt mentions passing the village (which he called ''Meraszrasz'') during his travels in the early 19th century. In 1838, ''el-Murussus'' was noted as part of the Jenin District. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''nahiya'' (sub-district) of Shafa al-Shamali. In 1882 the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described the it as "A small village on high ground, entirely built of mud, and standing amid plough-land. The water supply appears to come from the valley beneath (Wady Yebla)." British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Murassas had a population of 319 Musl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baysan Subdistrict
The Beisan Subdistrict (; ) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located around the city of Baysan. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the subdistrict disintegrated; most of it became part of Israel, and has been merged with the neighboring Nazareth Subdistrict to from the modern-day Jezre'el County. The southernmost parts, however, fell within the modern-day West Bank - because of that, they were first occupied and unilaterally annexed by Jordan, and were later occupied by Israel following the Six-day War. Depopulated towns and villages * Arab al-'Arida * Arab al-Bawati * Arab al-Safa * al-Ashrafiyya * Al-Bira * Beisan * Danna * Farwana * al-Fatur * al-Ghazzawiyya * al-Hamidiyya * Al-Hamra * Jabbul * Kafra * Kawkab al-Hawa * al-Khunayzir * Masil al-Jizl * al-Murassas * Qumya * al-Sakhina * al-Samiriyya * Sirin * Tall al-Shawk * Khirbat Al-Taqa * al-Tira * Umm 'Ajra Umm 'Ajra (), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yubla
Yubla (, known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth), was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Location The village was located 9 km north-northwest of Baysan, on the southern side of a natural, shallow valley through which the Wadi al-Tayyiba flowed. History The village was known to the Crusaders as ''Hubeleth'', and Khirbat Umm al-Su'ud, about 1,5 km southeast of the village contained rough stone enclosures and traces of walls.Khalidi, 1992, p. 66 Ottoman era In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' found at ''Kh. Yebla'': "Heaps of stones. No indications of date." British Mandate era During the period of the British Mandate of Palestine the village was classified as a "hamlet" by the ''Palestine Index Gazetteer''. Its houses were built along the roads, especially the one to the spring Ain Yubla, north of the village. In the 1922 census of Palestine Yubla had a popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab Revolt, Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British Empire, British Egyptian Expeditionary Force, forces drove Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces out of the Levant. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and French Third Republic, France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Homeland for the Jewish people, Jewish "national home" in Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was then establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Census Of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine. * Census of Palestine 1931, Volume I. Palestine Part I, Report. Alexandria, 1933 (349 pages). * Census of Palestine 1931, Volume II. Palestine, Part II, Tables. Alexandria, 1933 (595 pages). References Further reading * Miscellaneous short extracts from the census reports at Emory University * J. McCarthy, The Population of Palestine, Columbia University Press (1988). This contains many pages of tables extracted from the census reports. {{Authority control Censuses in Mandatory Palestine Census Of Palestine, 1931 Documents of Mandatory Palestine Palestine Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sde Nachum
Sde Nahum (, ''lit.'' Nahum Field) is a kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. Located around 4 km northwest of Beit She'an, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The nearby Palestinian village of Saffuriya had been almost emptied of its 4000 inhabitants in July 1948. By early January, 1949, about 500 villagers had filtered back, but "neighbouring settlements coveted Saffuriya lands". The "Northern Front" ordered their eviction, which was carried out the 7th of January 1949. The Saffuriya land was then distributed to its neighbouring Jewish settlements. In February 1949, 1,500 Dunams of Saffuriya land was given to Sde Nahum. File:שדה נחום - ביום העליה.-JNF032956.jpeg, Sde Nahum day of the Aliyah 1937 File:שדה נחום - ביום העליה.-JNF032957.jpeg, Sde Nahum founders 1937 File:שדה נחום - בעליה לשדה נחום, בן לילה הוקמה חומת ה ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinians
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine. *: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous population, descended from Jews, other Semitic groups, and non-Semitic groups such as the Philistines, had been mostly Christianized. Over succeeding centuries it was Islamicized, and Arabic replaced Aramaic (a Semitic tongue closely related to Hebrew) as the dominant language" * : "Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture." * : "Furthermore, Zionism itself was also defined by its opposition to the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants of the region. Both the 'conquest of land' and the 'conquest of labor' slogans that became central to the dominant stra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including Factory, industrial plants and high-tech Business, enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been Privatization, privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a ''kibbutznik'' ( / ; plural ''kibbutznikim'' or ''kibbutzniks''), the suffix ''-nik'' being of Slavic languages, Slavic origin. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with a total population of 126,000. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over US$1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yishuv
The Yishuv (), HaYishuv Ha'ivri (), or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el () was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in that region, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were some 630,000 Jews there. The term is still in use to denote the pre-1948 Jewish residents in Palestine, corresponding to the southern part of Ottoman Syria until 1918, OETA South in 1917–1920, and Mandatory Palestine in 1920–1948. A distinction is sometimes drawn between the '' Old Yishuv'' and the '' New Yishuv''. The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living in Palestine before the first Zionist immigration wave (''aliyah'') of 1882, and to their descendants until 1948. The Old Yishuv residents were religious Jews, living mainly in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron. There were smaller communities in Jaffa, Haifa, Peki'in, Acre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabbul
Jabbul (), is a depopulated former Palestinian Arab village located 7 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade. Location Jabbul stood on a hill on the edge of the Baysan Valley, overlooking Wadi Yubla to the southwest. Wadi al-Ashsha ran through its land in the south. A secondary road linked it to the Baysan - Jericho highway, and other roads connected it to the surrounding villages.Khalidi, 1992, p. 51. History The site was probably known in Roman times as Gebul or, more likely, as Gebula. Roman and Byzantine ceramic remains have been found here. The Crusaders also referred to it as Gebul, which may have been derived from the Hebrew word for "boundary". Ottoman era In 1596, Jabbul was a farm that paid taxes to the government. In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described the village as being situated on low ground and was built of stone and adobe. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafra, Baysan
Kafra (), was a Palestinian Arab village located 10.5 kilometres north of Baysan. Built along both sides of the Wadi Kafra, the village had been known by this name since at least the time of the Crusades.Khalidi, 1992, p. 52 It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestine War on May 16, 1948. History Adolf Neubauer connected it with a place mentioned in the Talmud, called Kefra. The archaeological discoveries in Kafra include a stele inscribed in Hebrew or Aramaic, with the name " Zebediah son of Zuzi," written using the Jewish script. Discovered near an unexcavated building, believed to a synagogue with a mosaic, the stele is currently housed in the Sturman Museum at Ein Harod. The Crusaders spelled it ''Cafra''. Ottoman era In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''nahiya'' (sub-district) of Shafa al-Shamali. In 1875, Victor Guérin visited and found many basalt ruins, but the village itself was deserted. In 1882, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Bira, Baysan
Al-Bira (), is a depopulated former Palestinian village located 7.5 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade. History It has been suggested that the village was the site mentioned in the records of Tutmose III's military campaign in Palestine in 1468 BC. Ottoman era In 1517 al-Bira was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. In the 1596 tax records, al-Bira was a village in the Ottoman Empire, ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Shafa under the '' liwa''' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 54 Muslim households; an estimated 297 persons. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and olives, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
