Rumat al-Heib ( ar, رُمة الهـَيـْب; he, רומת אל-הייב) is a Bedouin village in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth in the

Lower Galilee The Lower Galilee (; ar, الجليل الأسفل, translit=Al Jalil Al Asfal) is a region within the Northern District of Israel. The Lower Galilee is bordered by the Jezreel Valley to the south; the Upper Galilee to the north, from which it is ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of the

al-Batuf Regional Council Al-Batuf Regional Council ( ar, البطوف, he, מועצה אזורית אל-בטוף, ''Mo'atza Azorit al-Batuf'') is a regional council located on the southern fringe of the Beit Netofa Valley North of Nazareth within the Northern District ...

. In its population was .

History

British Mandate era

The village was established at the beginning of the 1920s by members of the Arab al-Heib

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and was originally named after the family. In the 1931 census the population was counted with nearby Rumana, and together they had 197 inhabitants; 195 Muslims and 2 Christians, in a total of 36 houses.

1948, Israel

. In 2007, there were tensions between the village and the nearby

moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 ...

Tzippori Tzippori () is a moshav in northern Israel, in the Lower Galilee. The moshav is within the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. The moshav is located at the site of the ancient settlement of Sepphoris, after which it was named. Hi ...

, with the Bedouins accused of

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.New version of old self-defense group guards Jewish farmlands
Haaretz, 28 December 2007

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{{Authority control Arab villages in Israel Al-Batuf Regional Council Populated places in Northern District (Israel) 1920s establishments in Mandatory Palestine Populated places established in the 1920s