Ein al-Asad ( ar, عين الأسد "the lion's spring", he, עין אל-אסד) is a
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
village in northern
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. Located near
Maghar in the
Galilee
Galilee (; he, הַגָּלִיל, hagGālīl; ar, الجليل, al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee (, ; , ) and Lower Galil ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Merom HaGalil Regional Council
The Merom HaGalil Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מרום הגליל, ''Mo'atza Azorit Merom HaGalil'') is a regional council in the northern Galilee of northern Israel. The regional council was established in 1950. The head of the ...
. As of it had a population of .
History
The community was founded in the mid to late 19th century by Druze from nearby
Beit Jann, who were later joined by Druze migrants from Lebanon and
Jabal al-Druze
Jabal al-Druze ( ar, جبل الدروز, ''jabal ad-durūz'', ''Mountain of the Druze''), officially Jabal al-Arab ( ar, جبل العرب, links=no, ''jabal al-ʿarab'', ''Mountain of the Arabs''), is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwa ...
in Syria. It was named after an eponymous wellspring outside the village.
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...
conducted by the
British Mandate authorities, Ein al-Asad had a population of 48, of whom 47 were Druze and one a Christian,
[Barron, 1923, p]
36
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 81; 80 Druze and one Christian and a total of 18 houses.[Mills, 1932, p. ]100
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
In the 1945 statistics, the population of Ein al-Asad together with Beit Jann was 1,640, all classified as "others" (meaning Druze, 120 of which were indicated as being in Ein al-Asad),[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p]
4
/ref> who owned 43,550 dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s of land according to an official land and population survey. 2,530 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, while 7,406 dunams were used for cereals and 67 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
130
/ref>
See also
*Druze in Israel
Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis ( ar, الدروز الإسرائيليون; he, דְּרוּזִים יִשְׂרְאֵלִים) are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people living ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Welcome To 'Ayn al-'Asad
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
IAA
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Arab villages in Israel
Druze communities in Israel
Populated places established in 1899
Populated places in Northern District (Israel)
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