His 100 dunams — about 25 acres — last year produced 150 tons of Anbar rice, a strain particular to Iraq that is prized for its gentle, floral aroma.
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Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now has called the bill "a grand land robbery" that would lead to the expropriation of 8,000 dunams (800 hectares) of private Palestinian land.
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But Agriculture Ministry spokesman Hameed al-Naief told the AP that only 5,000 dunams (1,236 acres) of irrigated land could be allocated to the crop this summer, less than 3 percent of the area permitted last year.
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Dated March 10, it listed 2,342 dunams, or 579 acres, and carried the signature of an official identified on the map as Israel's "supervisor of government property and abandoned property in Judea and Samaria", Hebrew terms for the West Bank.
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According to a study by Israel Kimchi of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies, the churches in Jerusalem hold some 5,000 dunams (approximately 1,235 acres) of land in prime areas of the city, including in the so-called Holy Basin around the Old City and in prestigious neighborhoods like Rehavia, Nayot and Talbieh.
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Its total land area was 19,747 dunams, of which 25 dunams were built-up areas and 5,365 dunams cultivable.
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The remaining 531 dunams were public property. Cultivable land amounted to 12,426 dunams, while uncultivated land amounted to 10,268 dunams.
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Satellite view of Zir'in Palestine Remembered. In 1945, it consisted of 23,920 dunams. The majority of the village lands (20,964 dunams) were allocated for cereals, while the built-up area of Zir'in consisted of 81 dunams.
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 They owned a total of 8,172 dunams of land, while 64 dunams were public.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 20 They owned a total of 11,873 dunams of land, while 447 dunams were public. Jews owned 365 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970 p. 75 A total of 2,708 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 175 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 9,301 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The village's total area amounts to 185,032 dunams, of which 972 dunams are Palestinian built up areas, 77 are for commercial and industrial transport units, 64,032 are arable lands and 108,606 dunams are open spaces. Israeli settlements, including Massua, Hamra and Argaman and military bases account for 11,293 dunams. The remaining land consists of forests and inland water.
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Qalunya (, also transliterated Qaluniya, Colonia and Kolonia) was a Palestinian Arab village located west of Jerusalem. Prior to the village's destruction in 1948, with the exception of 166 dunams, Qalunya's land was privately owned: 3,594 dunams were owned by Arabs, while 1,084 dunams were owned by Jews.
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Khirbet al-Malih is situated at a moderate elevation of above sea level. It borders the Jordan River in the east, the hamlet of al-Farisiya and the Jordan Valley to the north, and Tayasir and Khirbet al-'Atuf to the south. The total area of Khirbet al-Malih village is roughly 19,000 dunams, which represents approximately 2.7% of the Tubas Governorate's land area. About 500 dunams are populated area, whilst 12,000 dunams are agricultural lands, 4,000 dunams are covered by forests and 3,500 dunams are areas confiscated by Israel.
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Matthews, 2006, p. 228. By 1940, 353 males and 102 females attended the schools. In the 1945 statistics the population was 3,840; 130 Christians and 3,710 Muslims, while the total land area was 17,327 dunams. Of this, a total of 7,990 dunams of land was used for citrus and banana cultivation, 676 dunams for cereals and 3,195 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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The economy of the village was based on agriculture. In 1944/45 253 dunams was used for citrus and bananas, 10,818 dunams were allotted to cereals, 619 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Cultivable land accounted for 77% of the total land area. Orchards were planted on 1,548 dunams of which 1,500 were used for olive groves, and 8,457 dunams were allotted to grains. The residents of the town sold 536 dunams to Jews, and most of the rest was Arab-owned.
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Of this, 17,507 dunams were owned by Arabs, 35 dunams were owned by Jews, and 166 were public property.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Khalidi, 1992, p. 30 In 1944/1945 the village had a population of 760 Muslims, with a total of 8,542 dunams of land. Of this, 6,854 dunams were allocated to grain crops; 354 dunams were irrigated or planted with orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,240 Muslims, with 8,609 dunams of land. Of this, 21 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 1,377 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,848 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Lubya had a total land area of 39,629 dunams (3,963ha), of which 83% was Arab-owned and the remainder public property. Most of its cultivable land was planted with cereals while only 1,500 dunams (150 ha) were planted with olive groves. The village's built-up area was 210 dunams (21 ha).
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February 2006. The total jurisdiction of the village is 15,000 dunams, constituting 3% of the Tubas Governorate's land. Built-up area accounts for 480 dunams while 8,500 dunams are agricultural or cultivated lands. Warm weather is characteristic of Ein al-Beida, with hot, dry summers and cold and dry winters.
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 They owned a total of 17,870 dunams of land, while 121 dunams were public.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 6,035 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 9,955 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100 while 92 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 2,510 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 3,067 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100 while 16 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 885 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,737 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 908 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,170 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99 while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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26 while urban Bireh had 967 dunams of land, and rural Bireh 22,045 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of this, 96 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 388 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 7,412 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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12 who owned a total of 11,190 dunams of land, while 3,522 dunams of land was public.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Bardala's jurisdiction covers an area of 20,000 dunams, making up 4% of the Tubas Governorate lands. The built-up area of the town is 480 dunams, while 10,000 dunams are classified as agricultural land and 400 dunams have been confiscated by Israeli authorities. Warm climate is characteristic of the town, with hot and dry summers and cold and dry winters. The average rainfall is 293 millimeters and the average annual temperature was 21 to 22 degrees Celsius.
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The villagers worked primarily in rainfed agriculture.Khalidi, 1992, p.46 In the 1945 statistics Danna had a population of 190 Muslims, with a total of 6,614 dunams of land. Of this, a total of 5,097 dunams was used for cereals; 14 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 6,036 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 11,121 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100 while a total of 58 dunams were built-up, urban land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 194 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,726 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100 while a total of 3,707 dunams were non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 They owned a total of 8,366 dunams of land, while 7 dunams were public.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics Al-Majdal had a population of 360 Muslims with a total land area of 103 dunams. Of this, 24 dunams were used for growing citrus and bananas, and 41 dunums devoted to cereals. Another 17 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Khalidi, 1992, p. 516 In the 1944/1945 statistics, the village had a population of 410; 390 Muslims and 20 Christians, with a total of 2,852 dunams of land. Of this, Arabs used 29 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 1,709 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54. Of the village's lands, 3,254 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,254 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of the cultivated land, 1,967 dunams consisted of plantations and irrigable land, and 10,462 dunams were devoted to cereals.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 and a total land area of 2,724 dunams, most of which was Arab- owned. Its built-up area consisted of 21 dunams,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 452 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 31,301 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 2,534 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,140 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 1,978 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,577 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 464 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,957 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41 3,248 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,602 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Khalidi, 1992, p.546 Of this, 1,010 dunams were used for cereals, 24 dunams irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 2,370 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 7,259 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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54 . Of the village's lands, 2,211 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,850 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61 393 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 33,181 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 117 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 1,157 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 728 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while a total of 50,614 dunams were non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 399 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 2,050 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,171 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while a total of 17,712 dunams were non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 948 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 5,873 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 9,141 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while a total of 38 dunams were urban, built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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By the 1931 census Arab Ghannameh had 265 Muslims inhabitants, in a total of 54 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 106 In the 1945 statistics, its population was 350 Muslims, and the total land area were 3,975 dunams. Of this,77 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 20 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 3,451 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 9,542 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 21,464 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99 while 113 dunams were built-up (urban) land and 19,428 sunams were classified as "non-cultivable".Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Welcome To Ijnisinya Palestine Remembered. It has a total land area of 6,547 dunams, of which around two- thirds is cultivable. Its built-up area consists of only 30 dunams, olive trees cover 900 dunams, while cereals make-up the majority of the remaining cultivable land. On August 4, 2001, Israeli forces burned over 200 olive trees belonging to Ijnisinya and Zawata.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 Of this, 2 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,109 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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48 Of this, 6 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 39 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 1,527 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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75 A total of 28 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 169 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 6,847 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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4 owning 10,276 dunams, while Jews owned 189 dunams, and 3,731 was publicly owned, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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The village occupied an area of 3,617 dunams, all private except for a dunam of public property. In 1944–45 the village had 640 dunams of land used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 252 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,965 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Of this, 1,919 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,836 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 They owned a total of 3,217 dunams of land, while 32 dunams were public, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 1,259 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,284 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Of this, 160 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,917 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, a total of 240 dunams were used citrus and bananas, 252 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 15,582 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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40 A total of 737 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 1,631 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,033 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Of this, 7,401 dunams were allocated to cereals, 422 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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5 encapsulating with 42,452 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Be'er Ya'akov will get 560 dunams (0.56 km2) mostly for residential development.
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57 Of this, 200 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,338 for cereals,Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while 45 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Of this, 418 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 2,822 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,502 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 101 while a total of 97,204 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54. Of the village's lands, 3,451 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 7,469 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99. while 25 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149.
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Tayasir's total land area amounts to about 26,000 dunams, of which roughly 500 make up the village's "built-up" area. About 5,000 dunams are classified as arable land, of which 3,545 are cultivated, mostly with field crops and fruit trees. The Israeli authorities have confiscated 15,875 dunams for security reasons and military use. Agriculture is the largest economic sector, accounting for 82% of the active labor force.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54. Of the village's lands, 2,671 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 11,054 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12 They had 55,583 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 7,864 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 18,352 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Finn, 1868, p. 151 It has a total land area of 6,781 dunams.
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Its annual growth rate is 3.6%. Kuseife's jurisdiction is 13,692 dunams (~13.7 km²).
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Most of the remainder is arable land, 505 dunams of which are cultivated.
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In addition, Sarafand had a public hospital and an agricultural station. In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 1,910 Muslims and 40 Christians. Agriculture was the main economic activity, with citrus being the main crop. In 1944-45, a total of 3,059 dunams were devoted to citrus and bananas and 4,012 dunams were allocated to grains; 1,655 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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By 1998, it extended over 150 dunams (37 acres)Violet Qumsieh, 'The Environmental Impact of Jewish Settlements in the West Bank,' Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol.5 No.1 1998. and since has expanded to cover over 1,300 dunams (about 325 acres) (2013).
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12 who owned 55,583 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 7,864 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 18,352 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Its economy was based on agriculture. In 1944/45 it had 2,102 dunams (505 acres) planted with cereals and 544 dunams (136 acres) either irrigated or fig and olive orchards. Al-Shajara was the home village of the cartoonist Naji al-Ali.
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25 and it had jurisdiction over 52,600 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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24 and it had jurisdiction over 21,332 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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24 and it had jurisdiction over 37,481 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Pini Badash has served as mayor since 1990. Omer's jurisdiction is 20,126 dunams (~20.1 km²).
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Agricultural land comprises 7,432 dunams, while the remainder is a part of the Seam Zone.
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After the Six-Day War in 1967, Furush Beit Dajan has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 100% of village land, that is 20,083 dunams, has been defined as Area C territory.Furush Beit Dajan Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 14 Israel has confiscated 1,370 dunams of Furush Beit Dajan's land for the Israeli settlement of Hamra, Bik'at HaYarden, in addition to taking 192 dunams for a military checkpoint close to the settlement.
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It was attended by thousands of people from Palestine, Lebanon, Damascus, and Transjordan. The speeches delivered at the event centered around the independence of the Arab world and the importance of unity between Arab Muslims and Christians.Matthews, 2006, p. 153 In 1945, Hittin had a population of 1,190 Muslims with a total land area of 22,764 dunams (22.764 km2), of which 22,086 dunams were Arab-owned and 147 dunams were Jewish-owned.
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In 1944/1945, the village had a population of 320 Muslims, with a total of 967 dunams of land. Of this, 131 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 797 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 750 Muslims, with 7,001 dunams of land. Of this, 141 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 5,639 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73 There were 720 Muslim and 50 Christians.Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government, p. 7 In 1944/45 the village had 2,102 dunams of land used for cereals, and 544 dunams irrigated or used for orchards,Khalidi, 1992, p.
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24 and together they had jurisdiction over 106,946 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Its area is 1,800 dunams, and most of its residents are descendants of yemenite jewish refugees.
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66, (Hebrew) As of , Shoham had a population of . Its jurisdiction is 5,889 dunams (~5.9 km2).
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Some 100 olive trees and 4 wells on his fifty-year-old farm were destroyed.HEBRON: Settlers seize 2000 dunams of Palestinian farmland around Givat HaHarsina. Jerry Levin, CPT, 21 January 2004 Estimated 2000 dunams of land was in the process of being annexed by the settlement.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from several surrounding Palestinian villages in order to construct Halamish; 604 dunams from Deir Nidham,Deir Nidham village profile, ARIJ, p. 16 10 dunams from the Beitillu part of Al-Ittihad.Al-Itihad Town Profile (Beitillu, Jammala & Deir 'Ammar), ARIJ, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 1,753 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105 while 6 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The built-up area of the village lies south of Gilo, from Teddy Stadium. Some tracts of village land were expropriated by the Israeli government in 1970 for the construction of Gilo.Cohen, 1993, p. 82. According to Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, an additional 1,350 dunams (1.35 km2) were expropriated in 1983. In 1996, the total land area of the village was 1,974 dunams (1.974 km2), with a built-up area of 285 dunams.
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Other nearby localities include Kafr Ein in the north, Deir as-Sudan to the northeast, 'Abud to the west, and Deir Nidham to the southwest.Satellite view of al-Nabi Salih In a 1945 land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, Nabi Salih had a total land area of 2,846 dunams, of which 2,797 was Arab-owned, the remainder public-owned. The built-up area of the village only constituted 11 dunams, while 735 dunams were planted with olive groves.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 45 dunams were built-up land.
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20: Citrus, bananas, cereals, fruit and olive trees dunams. It is near the site of Tel Kabri.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 35 dunams were built-up areas.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 18 dunams were built-up areas.
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In 2003, the combined land area was 8,939 dunams, housing a population of 963 in 245 dwellings.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 6 dunams were built-up areas.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 70 dunams were built-up areas.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 21 dunams were built-up areas.
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The area is about 2,200 dunams. Most of the residents work in farming bananas, avocadoes and turkeys.
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Nearby localities include Beit Iksa to the south, al Jib to the north, Beit Hanina to the east and Biddu to the west.Satellite View of al-Nabi Samwil The village consisted of 1,592 dunams of which only 5 dunams were built-up.Welcome to al-Nabi Samwil Palestine Remembered.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 9,860 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,064 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 101 while 737 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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2 with of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 614 dunams for citrus and bananas, 14,699 dunams were plantations and irrigable land; 10,437 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 30 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 40,398 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94 while 165 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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92 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 920 Muslims, and the total land area was 10,882 dunams. Of the land, 147 dunams was for plantations and irrigable land, for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 1,713 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,365 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94 while 24 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ein el Mansi had 73 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 15 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 68 In the 1945 statistics, Ayn al-Mansi had a population of 90 Muslims, and the jurisdiction of the village was 1,295 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 186 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 868 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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88 while 37 dunams were built-up, urban, land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80 and 58 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99 while 9 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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93 while 22 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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94 while 33 dunams were classified urban, public areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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96 2 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80 while 111 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 167 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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90 while 91 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 while 58 dunams were built-up (urban) area.
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In 1951, the population was 4450, of whom about 10% were internally displaced persons from other villages. During the early 1950s, about 25,000 dunams of the land of Shefa-ʻAmr were expropriated by the following method: the land was declared a closed military area, then after enough time had passed for it to have become legally "uncultivated", the Minister of Agriculture used his powers to "ensure that it was cultivated" by giving it to neighboring Jewish majority communities. Some of the land was owned by Jews. Another 7,579 dunams were expropriated in 1953–4. The total land holdings of the village fell from 58,725 dunams in 1945 to 10,371 dunams in 1962.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of the land, 5,700 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 5,889 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 96 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 153 The Orthodox Christian Church owns several hundreds of dunams made up of vineyards, olive groves and field crops. The lands were entrusted to them since the Rashidun era during the caliphate of Umar who presided over the conquest of Palestine in the 630s. Most of the land is leased to Muslim farmers.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 2,136 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,227 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 104 while 31 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 293 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 986 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 3 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40 1,607 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 6,475 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80 while 247 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 243 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 19,104 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 while 25 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60 Of this, 890 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,443 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107 while 28 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 534 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,032 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 104 while 22 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira () was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located northeast of Gaza.Khalidi, 1992, p.124 With a land area of 20,687 dunams, the village site (135 dunams) was situated on an elevation of along the coastal plain. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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The Ottoman school was closed down during this period. In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 320 Muslims, and the total land area was 12,019 dunams. Of this, Arabs used 7,905 dunams for cereals, 335 for plantations and irrigable land,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 1,068 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,659 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 63 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46 Of this, 275 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 24,173 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 16,131 dunams were un-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mills, 1932, p. 4. In the 1945 statistics Karatiyya had a population of 1,370 Muslims, with a total of 13,709 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 321 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 12,928 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75 5,587 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,257 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 126 while 18 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61 living in a built-up area of 34 dunams.
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18 with 18,486 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) Arab land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 96 while 95 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 96 while 291 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 585 dunams were classified as un-cultivable land.
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91 while 39 dunams were classified built-up, (urban), land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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87 while they had 35 dunams as built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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16 with 50,547 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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95 while 14 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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95 while 7 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61 living in a built-up area of 25 dunams.
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17 with 12,593 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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17 with 12,499 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qatanna has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 1,594, of whom 151 were refugees. Currently, the town has a total land area of 3,555 dunams, of which 677 dunams are designated as built-up area. After the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, civil administration of 716 dunams of Qatanna's land (including the built-up zone) was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority.
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Mills, 1932, p. 3 In the 1945 statistics Bureir had a population of 2,740, all Muslims, with 44,220 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 409 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 43,319 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Al-Nabi Rubin and Suruh together was 1000 Muslims, and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land. 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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10 increasing in the 1931 census of Palestine to 543, still all Muslim, in 112 inhabited houses.Mills, 1932, p. 28 In the 1945 statistics, Deir al-Dubban had a population of 730 Muslims and a land area of 7,784 dunams. 5358 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Of this, 86 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,777 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the population of al-Ruways was 330 Muslims, who owned 1,163 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 222 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 844 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64 Of this, 5,162 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 11,226 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111 while 759 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The inhabitants worked in agriculture and animal breeding. In the 1944/1945 statistics the population consisted of 90 Muslims, and together with the people of Al-Manara they had 4,185 dunams of land. Of this, 4,172 dunams of land were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Of this, 2,015 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,471 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 101 while 63 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69. Of this, Arabs used 2,928 dunams for plantations and irrigable land,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 119 while a total of 47 dunams was non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of this, 2,477 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, 31,616 dunams used for cereals,Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 93 while 287 dunams were built-up (urban) areas. Bayt Jibrin was in the territory allotted to the Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
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Mills, 1932, p. 90 In the 1945 statistics the population was 650, all Muslims, and it had a total of 12,605 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 1,503 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,422 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Rantis has a land area 11,046 dunams of which 589 dunams are built-up area. The town's main economic sector is agriculture and 20% of its land area is planted with crops. There are two primary schools and two kindergartens. Other facilities include three clinics, a bus station, a club and two mosques.
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The settlers moved on to the land without government permission. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two Palestinian villages for the establishment of Shvut Rachel: 372 dunams of land from Turmus Ayya,Turmus’ayya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 and 963 dunams from Qaryut/Jalud.Qaryut Village Profile (including Jalud Locality), ARIJ, p.
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According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Jab'a had a population of approximately 896 in 2007.2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118. Jab'a has a total land area of 10,099 dunams, of which 1,002 dunams as built-up area. Al Jaba'a Border crossing under construction Poica, 26 December 2005.
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This significantly hurt the settlement plan for Gvulot, which called for the purchase of 5,000–6,000 dunams (5–6 km2).
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117 while 36 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 The total jurisdiction of the village was 70,192 dunams of land.
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'Israeli authorities issued confiscation orders for 16 dunams of Palestinian land west of N,' Ma'an News Agency 3 July 2014.
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23 who owned 34,002 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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One estimate put the amount of unalienable Islamic property dedicated to pious ends confiscated by Israel at over 600,000 dunams.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 40 dunams were classified as built-up, urban land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 36 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116 while 31 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162 while 2,404 dunams were cultivated.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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4 who owned 43,550 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Of this, 539 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,739 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 while 6 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Of this, 1,845 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 140 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 while 17 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The precise extent of Islamic Waqf lands – Islamic property held in sacred trust for religious purposes – in 1967 is unknown but in 1992 Michael Dumper calculated West Bank waqf properties extended over 600,000 dunams. By 2013 the Israeli occupation authorities were estimated to have expropriated more than 104,996 dunams of waqf holdings, mostly around Jericho.
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Beit Sira () is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. The village is situated along the Green Line. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, around 4,000 dunams of its land became a part of the "No- Man's Land" strip between the north-central West Bank and Israel. Currently Beit Sira's jurisdiction is 3,120 dunams, of which 441 dunams are built-up areas and the remainder is open spaces for future construction or agricultural land.
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A school was opened in 1945 with an enrollment of 63 students and a number of small shops were opened there as well. Agriculture was the primary source of income for most residents, followed by commerce. In the 1945 statistics Dayr Sunayd had a population of 730, all Muslims, with a total of 6,081 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 158 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 512 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,863 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Tammun stands at an elevation of 332 meters above sea level. It is five kilometers south of Tubas, twenty-three kilometers northeast of Nablus, and bordered by Far'a and Wadi al-Far'a to the west and an-Naseriya to the south. The town's total land area is about 81,000 dunams, accounting for more than 15% of the Tubas Governorate's jurisdiction. About 1,519 dunams are designated as 'built up' area, while 79,481 dunams are used for agricultural purposes, are covered by forests or are classified as closed-off areas controlled by the Israel Defense Forces.
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123Khalidi, 1992, p.547 while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics, its population was 530 Muslims, with a total of 8,453 dunams of land.
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Its jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams (~35.9 km2 or 15 sq mi). Petah Tikva is part of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
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Shuqba () is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17 kilometers northwest of the city of Ramallah in Palestine. Shuqba has a total area of 13,990 dunams, and the built-up area comprises 616 dunams. Shuqba was home to approximately 4,497 inhabitants in 2007.2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.
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19 Since 1997, al-Ubeidiya has been governed by an 11-member municipal council appointed by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). The municipality has jurisdiction over 97,232 dunams of land—much larger than the built-up and residential areas of the town which constitute 979 of those dunams. Other localities located within the municipal borders include Wadi al-Arayis.
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The latter migrated to the area from ar-Ramtha, Jordan.Beit Awwa Palestine Remembered. Palestine Remembered English Its total land area is 470 dunams, 30% of it lands before 1948; due to the town's proximity Green Line hundreds of dunams are a part of modern-day Israel.The Town of Beit Awwa: A Brief Land Research Center. 2008-06-01.
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Two wells located northwest and southwest of it provided drinking water. el Qubeiba 1945 1:250,000 In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Qubayba was 1,060, all Muslims, who owned 11,912 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 8109 dunams were for cerealsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In 2011, the unemployment rate in Khirbet Abu Falah was 20%. The village has a total area of 8,245 dunams. Built-up areas make up 8.4% of the village's land, while cultivable areas and open spaces constitute 56.4% and 35.1%, respectively. Of the cultivable areas, 3,981 dunams are planted with permanent crops, mainly olive trees and grains.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41 Of this, 5,747 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,909 used for cereal,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 82 while 140 dunams were built-up landGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yarda had a population of 13 Muslims, in a total of 3 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics, the population was 20 Muslims, who owned 1,367 dunams of land. Of this, 1,359 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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The unemployment rate in the town is 60%.More of Bruqin's and Kafr Ad dik's land are targeted by the Segregation Wall Applied Research Institute Jerusalem 2007-03-05. The town's total land area consists of 15,228 dunams of which 578 dunams are built-up. However, 119 of those dunums is located outside Kafr ad-Dik's jurisdiction.
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Mills, 1932, p. 74 In the 1945 statistics the population of Ma'alul was 690; 490 Muslims and 200 Christians, with a total of 4,698 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 650 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 3,462 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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According to the ARIJ, Beitar Illit was established in 1985 on land which Israel had confiscated from two nearby Palestinian villages: 3,140 dunams from HusanHusan Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 and 1,166 dunams from Nahalin.Nahhalin Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 It was established by a small group of young families from the religious Zionist yeshiva of Machon Meir.
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16 Israel has confiscated 752 dunams of village land for the Israeli settlement of Shilo, and another 372 dunams for Mizpe Rahel.Turmus’ayya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 In December 2014, the town was the site of the controversial death of Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein, during a protest against Israeli occupation.Palestine’s land conflict: Death in the olive groves, economist.com.
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The town consists of 8,207 dunams, of which 438 dunams are classified as built-up area. As a result of 1995 accords, 7.7% of Deir Qaddis' land was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority for civil affairs, so-called Area B, but Israel still retains full control of 92.3% of the town, being in Area C.
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Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC). 2007-02-09. There is one mosque, al-Ma'sara Mosque, and a primary and secondary school in the village. Agriculture accounts for 70% of al-Ma'sara's economic activity, while the civil sector makes up 16%. The total land area is 973 dunams, of which 42 dunams are designated built-up.
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Shikmona was declared a 1677-dunam nature reserve in 2008. A small area (73 dunams) was declared a national park, as well.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 130 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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81Khalidi, 1992, p. 33-34 while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 30 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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86 while 32 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 114 while a total of 15 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
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95 while 6 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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95 while seven dunams were built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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88 while 31 dunams were built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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85 while 15 dunams was built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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87 while 1,847 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 24 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Around 200 dunams of land were planted with olive trees, and there were two presses in the village used to process olives.
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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Ar'arat an-Naqab was in . Its jurisdiction is 14,052 dunams.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 110 while 34 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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88 while 35 dunams were built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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University of Arizona-Faculty of the School of Architecture. 2004. Nearby localities include Kafr ad-Dik and Bruqin to the north, Qarawat Bani Zeid to the northeast, Kafr Ein to the east, Nabi Salih to the southeast, Deir Nidham and the Israeli settlement of Halamish to the south, Aboud to the southwest, al-Lubban al-Gharbi and the settlement of Beit Aryeh to the west and the settlement of Peduel to the northwest. Bani Zeid had a total land area of 22,249 dunams in 1945, of which 90 dunams were classified as built-up areas (Deir Ghassaneh was larger than Beit Rima) and 8,400 dunams were planted with olive or fig groves. Today the Bani Zeid municipality has a jurisdiction of over 21,979 dunams, of which 80.6% is cultivable land.
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18 with 142,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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121 while 48 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 28 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80 while 36 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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17 with 8,931 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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84 while 169 dunams were classified as uncultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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17 with 9,972 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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93 while 171 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 135 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 8 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105. while 53 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99. while 36 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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8 with 13,390 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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118 while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94 while 63 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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24 with 10,105 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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18 with 8,068 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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126 while 58 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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104 while 5 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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25 with 9,464 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 84 while 10 dunams were built–up, Arab land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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17 with 20,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90 while 50 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122 while 55 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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119 while 96 dunams were classified as urban land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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17 with 37,805 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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32 with 40,579 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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87 while 39 dunams were public built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 5,066 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118Khalidi, 1992, p. 446 while 17,093 dunams were classified as non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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104 while 10 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 30,496 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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17 with 6,627 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47 6 dunams of land were designated for citrus and bananas, 278 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 4,796 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 89 while 51 dunams were built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 139 In 1945 the Italian and Hungarian internees were released but the Britons refused to repatriate the remaining German internees to the British zone in Germany. In 1947, they were allowed to emigrate to Australia.Sauer, 1996, p. 19.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Ramin has been under Israeli occupation, and according to the Israeli census of that year, the population of Ramin stood at 818, of whom 8 were registered as being refugees from Israel. Ramin's population is made up of the families of Salman (30%), Zafer (24%), Hamad (22%) and Zeiden (24%).The Effects of the Israeli Practices on Residents of Ramin village Land Research Center. 22 June 2004 Ramin's total land area is about 8,500 dunams, of which 422 dunums is built-up area, about 500 dunams for quarries and 500 dunams for pastures.
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Barron, 1923, Table XIII, p. 44 The population had increased in the 1931 census to 3,405; 3,401 Muslims and 4 Christians, in a total of 865 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 3 Hamada 1930 1:20,000 Hamada 1945 1:250,000 (lower left) In the 1945 statistics Hamama had a population of 5,070; 5,000 Muslims, 10 Christians and 60 Jews, with a total of 41,366 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,356 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 4,459 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 28,890 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In 1938 the British built a Tegart fort in Saliha Its population was predominantly Shia Muslim and it had an elementary school for boys. In the 1931 census of Palestine the population of Salha was 742 Muslims, in a total of 142 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 110 By the 1945 statistics the population was counted with Maroun al-Ras and Yaroun, and totaling 1,070 Muslims with 11,735 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 7,401 dunams were allocated to cereals, 422 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In April 2018, Palestinians begun launching homemade incendiary kites and balloons. They would drift over the border and set fire to Israeli crop fields and forests. As of early June, roughly 5,000 dunams of Israeli crop fields had been burned by kites launched from Gaza, with an estimated economic loss of US$1.4 million, in addition to 2,100 dunams of Jewish National Fund forests in the area and 4,000 to 5,000 dunams in the Besor Forest Nature Reserve.Almog Ben Zikri, Fire Damage to Israeli Agriculture Near Gaza Border Estimated at $1.4m and Rising Haaretz 3 June 2018.
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Several local industries provided employment for residents areas including the "Atzmona nursery" for house plants, which was the second largest in Israel and a factory producing cleaning materials. In the cooperative settlement, there was area of more than 50,000 dunams (50 km²) of field crops in the Besor area, 12 dunams (12,000 m²) of turkey coops, a barn, and a building company.
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Al-Mansi had six springs in its vicinity which supplied it with drinking water.Khalidi, 1992, p. 176-177 In 1945, it had a population of 1,200 inhabitants; 1,180 Muslims and 20 Christians, and the total land area was 12,272 dunams. Of the land, Arabs used 1,391 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 6,559 for grains,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Most of the settlement's residents earn their living from agriculture. The younger members work in both agriculture and other jobs. In the 2013 the settlement had 3,960 dunams of cultivated land, of which 2,700 dunams was used for date palms, 800 for vineyards, 400 for vegetables (mostly peppers) and 60 for flowers. Most of the agricultural output is designated for export.
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69-70 Idhna's primary source of income is agriculture and the town's total land area is 21,526 dunams (215 km²), of which 2,809 dunams (28 km²) are built up area.Demolitions, threats of demolitions and evictions in Idhna town - Hebron Governorate Land Research Center. 24 February 2007 Idhna is governed by a municipal council of thirteen members and six departments.Municipality of Idna Idna Municipality.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Arab el-Fatur had a population of 66, all Muslims, in 16 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 78 In the 1945 statistics, the population was 110 Muslims, with a total of 729 dunams of land. Of this, 709 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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After the 1995 accords, only 9% of village land was classified as Area B in the Oslo II Accord, while the remaining 91% is Area C.Qarawat Bani Hassan Town Profile, ARIJ, 2013, p. 17 In addition to losing 174 dunams of village land for Kiryat Netafim, Israel has also expropriated 167 dunams of village land for the Israeli settlement of Barkan.
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23 who owned 37,334 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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23 who owned 92,423 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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110 while 102 dunams were classified as built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Nasir ad-Din and nearby al-Manara were in the same jurisdiction with 4,185 dunams of land, most of which was allocated to cereals.
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103 while 80 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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114 while 681 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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86 while 34 dunams were classified as built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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89 while 2,118 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 92 while 69 dunams were classified as built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122 while a total of 442 dunams were un-cultivable.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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117 while 24 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.84 while 91 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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25 who owned 16,144 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Ness Ziona (, Nes Tziyona) is a town in central Israel. In it had a population of , and its jurisdiction was 15,579 dunams (15.579 km2).
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111. while 45 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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96 while 114 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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23 who owned 22,091 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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115 while 148 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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127 29 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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21 who owned 14,757 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122 while 6 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123 while 13 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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568 while 3 dunams were classified as built-up, urban land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, Arabs used all the 156 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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85 while a total of 448 dunams were non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122 while 30 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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122 while 6 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117 while 33 dunams were classified as built-up, urban areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the village had 4,538 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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95 Also in Khalidi, 1992, p.246-247 3 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123 while 64 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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125 while 15 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, 2,814 dunams were Arab owned, 391 were Jewish owned, and 109 was public property.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of this, 1,719 dunams of land were for plantations and irrigable land, 15,474 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 35 dunams were classified as urban (built-up) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123 while 28 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Suruh and Al-Nabi Rubin together was 1000 Muslims according to an official land and population survey, all were Muslims,Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945 , p. 3 and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land. 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit 'Anan has been under Israeli occupation. The population of Beit Inan in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 1,261, of whom 212 originated from the Israeli territory. After the 1995 accords, about 12.9% of the land (or 1,309 dunams) was classified as Area B, and the remaining 87.1% (or 8,797 dunams) as Area C.
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According to ARIJ, in order to construct Petza'el Israel confiscated land from two Palestinian villages: • 1,242 dunams from FasayilFasayil Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ • 176 dunams from Al-JiftlikAl Jiftlik Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ The settlement was established near Ma'ale Efraim in 1970 by former soldiers who were members of the Moshavim Movement. The settlement was initially administered as both a moshav and a kibbutz.
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The village economy depended on animal husbandry and agriculture and the main crops cultivated were various sorts of grain.Khalidi, 1992, p. 170 In the 1945 statistics, Kafr Lam had a population of 340 Muslim inhabitants, and the total land area was 6,838 dunams. Of the land, a total of 75 dunams was for plantations and irrigable land, for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Some 15 to 20 small villages existed on the plateau during that period, most of which next to springs. In total their combined size was between 100 and 150 dunams. During the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE), the city of Hazor became smaller but still was the largest in Canaan at 700–800 dunams. Only two settlements existed in Tel Kinnarot and Kfar Nahum.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine Al-Kunayyisa was counted with Innaba, together they had 1135 Muslim inhabitants, in 288 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 20 In the 1945 statistics Al-Kunayyisa had a population of 40 Muslims, with 3,872 dunams of land. Of this, a 64 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,432 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Arab al-Fuqara (Arabic: عرب الفقراء) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. At that time, the land records of the village consisted of a total area of 2,714 dunams, of which 2,513 were owned by Jews, 15 owned by Arabs, and the remaining 186 dunams being public lands.
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The Israeli settlement was established between May and September 1983 on 1,800 dunams of land. It was expanded in late 1999 by installing 10 caravans on 4 dunams of land belonging to the Shreiteh family. It had a population of 737 in 2006.Unispal, "Israeli Settlements in Gaza and the West Bank (Including Jerusalem) Their Nature and Purpose, Part II" , United Nations, New York 1984.
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84 Agriculture was the main economic sector with the primary crops being grain and fruit orchards. In the 1945 statistics, the population reached 480 Muslims,Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government, p. 7 and the total land area owned by Arabs was 4,295 dunams. Of this, 7 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,258 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41 Of this, 804 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,625 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 82 while 40 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 132 In the same 1945 survey Jat had a population of 200 Arabs; 10 Muslims and 190 "others", i.e. Druze,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 04 and 5,909 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Mills, 1932, p. 76 In summer of 1931, archaeologist Leroy Waterman began the first excavations at Saffuriya, digging up part of the school playground, formerly the site of the Crusader fort. A local council was established in 1923. The expenditure of the council grew from 74 Palestine pound in 1929 to 1,217 in 1944. In the 1945 statistics, the population was 4,330; 4,320 Muslims and 10 Christians, and the total land area was 55,378 dunams. In 1944/45 a total of 21,841 dunams of village land was used for cereals, 5,310 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards, mostly olive trees,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Ma'agan Michael's agricultural endeavors includes field crops and orchards. Field crops are grown on 1600 dunams (1.6 km²) of the Kabarra. Fodder is grown for the dairy cows. For many years the main crop has been cotton. Several varieties of avocado (1,000 dunams) are grown, especially in orchards in Tantura, most of which is exported to Europe. The kibbutz produces 1,200 tons of bananas per year, solely for the local market. Papaya and other exotic fruits are grown in 40 dunams in greenhouses (organic crop), with over 80 types of fruit trees (Abraham's Orchard) on Mount Carmel. The kibbutz produces 2,000 tons of poultry per year, using free-range intensive breeding.
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26 while the total land area was 5,934 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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16 with a total of 12,906 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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97 41 dunams of village lands were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 34,164 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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19 while the total land area was 23,117 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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29 while the total land area was 11,401 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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With a land area of 16,696 dunams (~16.7 km²), Meitar is ranked very highly on the Israeli socio-economic scale, with a score of 9/10.
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103 while a total of 1,077 dunams were classified non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72 All the inhabitants were Muslim.Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government , p. 7 The total land area was 39,629 dunams.
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2,367 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 17,791 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 14,088 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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169 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, including 50 dunams of olive trees.Khalidi, 1992, p.311Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, pp.
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24 with 13,307 (rural) and 737 (urban) dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Kardala Village Profile Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February 2006. Nearly all working residents, spend their livelihoods in agriculture. Of the hamlet's 800 dunams, 250 are arable lands.
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Of this, 1,182 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,137 for cereals;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90 while a total of 2,437 dunams was classified as non- cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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5 while the total jurisdiction of the village was 30,559 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Al-Auja () is a Palestinian town in the Jericho Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located ten kilometers north of Jericho. The town has a total area of 107,905 dunams, however its built-up area comprises only 832 dunams. It is situated 230 meters below sea level. Agricultural land makes up over 10% of the town's area, mostly planted with bananas, oranges, and vegetables for which al-Auja is well known.
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500 dunams of village land have been lost due to the wall; including 400 dunams now isolated behind the wall.Khirbet Ad Deir Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 10 According to statistics provided by ARIJ, in 2009, some 40% of the village's population made-up the Israeli labor market, being issued permits to work on the Israeli-side of the Green Line.Khirbet Ad Deir Village (Fact Sheet), ARIJ The villagers are all Muslims.
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In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jannatah came under Jordanian rule. Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jannatah has been held under Israeli occupation. According to ARIJ, Israel has confiscated land from Jannatah to construct two Israeli settlements; 409 dunams of land in 1982 for NokdimJannatah Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 and 222 dunams in 1999 for El David.
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The British also constructed a military camp in Julis to control the junction. In the 1945 statistics Julis had a population of 1,030 Muslims, with a total of 13,584 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,360 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 931 for plantations and irrigable land, 10,803 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Qallil has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 Accords, 27% of the village land was classified as Area A, the remaining 73% as Area C. Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 14 Israel has confiscated hundreds of dunams of land from the village. Some has been used for Israeli military checkpoints, and 15 dunams went to the Israeli settlement of Har Brakha.
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During the Six-Day War in 1967, Far'un came under Israeli occupation and has remained so since. The total land area of the town 8,800 dunams, however nearly half of Far'un's land has been confiscated by Israeli authorities. It currently has a land area of 4,333 dunams of which 495 is built-up area.Closure of an agricultural Wall gate threatens the olive-picking season in Far'un village Land Research Center.
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The agricultural grounds of Mikve Israel cover over 2,200 dunams (out of a general area of 3,300 dunams). Most of the fields are irrigated using wells and include field crops, industrial crops, vegetables, fruit trees, orange groves and greenhouses. The school also raises animals including milk cows, chickens and honey bees, as well as having auxiliary branches including computerized agriculture. One dunam (0.1 hectares) is covered by greenhouses.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Damaireh had a population of 227 Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub- district of Haifa, p. 35 The population in the 1945 statistics was 620, all Muslims, with a total of 1,387 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 263 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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There are five Israeli settlements built on 1,448 dunams of Kafr ad-Dik's land and the population of the settlers is 2,062. As a result of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian National Authority controls the civil affairs of 1,953 dunums of Kafr ad-Dik's land (Area B), while 13,275 dunams are classified as Area C, which is under full Israeli control.
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There were 104 students in the mid-1940s. The main crop was grain, with some almond trees and grapes. In the 1945 statistics 'Iraq Suweidan had a population of 660, all Muslims, with a total of 7,529 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 9 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 7,329 for cereals,Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945.
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The moshav was founded in 1971 and was initially named Atarot, before being renamed after nearby Tel Hamra. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two nearby Palestinian villages in order to construct Hamra; 1,370 dunams from Furush Beit Dajan, 192 dunams for a military checkpoint close to Hamra,Furush Beit Dajan Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15 and an unspecified amount from Beit Dajan.Beit Dajan Village Profile, ARIJ, p.
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Ibdis (, ‘Ibdis; ) was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located northeast of Gaza City. It was situated on flat ground on the coastal plain at an elevation of above sea level, and bordered by a wadi that bore its name on its eastern side. In 1945, Ibdis had a population of 540 and a land area of 4,593 dunams, of which 18 dunams were built-up areas.
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6 with 13,230 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 1,972 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 11,532 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 10,787 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 with 5,393 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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21 with 9,687 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, a total of 174 dunams were allocated to grain crops; 22 dunums were irrigated and planted with orchards.Khalidi, 1992, p. 5Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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26 with 13,409 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 19,096 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 7,491 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 8,938 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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16 with 7,328 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 with 8,179 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 9,356 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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31 with 11,497 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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4 and the land area was a total of 13,043 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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18 with 12,545 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 18,931 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, 18 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 650 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, 3 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 485 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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357 In July, 1948, The Israeli kibbutz Beit HaShita took over 5,400 dunams of land from the newly depopulated Palestinian villages of Yubla and Al- Murassas.Fischbach, 2012, p.
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The villagers cultivated 35 Faddans of land (1 faddan is equal to 100-250 dunams).Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 41. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p.
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Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 with 14,948 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 36,663 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64. 1,856 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, and 548 for cereals.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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18 with 19,821 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 17,542 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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32 with 4,510 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 with 7,982 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 with 8,290 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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21 with 5,060 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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20 with 13,981 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 who owned 17,292 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 3,732 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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30 who owned 9,854 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59. Of this, 1,442 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 6,819 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46 Of this, 7,987 dunams were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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The Nahal Sorek Nature Reserve, first declared in 1965, and since expanded, spans over 11000 dunams, from the Avshalom Cave Nature Reserve near Beit Shemesh, to moshav Nes Harim.
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Of this land, Arabs used 164 dunams for citrus and bananas, 8 for irrigation and plantation, 4,395 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of the land, Arabs used 2 dunams for citrus and bananas, 20 for plantations and irrigable land, for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, 222 while 68 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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The 60-centimeter-wide single route winds through 1,500 dunams (approx 375 acres) in Ofakim Forest, passing through Nahal Shomriya and Nahal Patish, and looping around eight local moshavim.
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17 and the jurisdiction of the village was 5,719 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of this, 12 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,622 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Shaqib al-Salam's jurisdiction is 5,981 dunams (~6 km²). Most residents belong to various clans of the al-Azazme tribe which also populates Bir Hadaj, and also to Tarabin.
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Khalidi, 1992, p. 316 366 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,677 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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The town's built-up area is currently about 3,600 dunams. Bal'a has six schools: Two secondary, four primary. Boys and girls attend different schools. There are also three kindergartens.
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4 who owned 43,550 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Located to the west of Nablus (Shechem) on the road to Tulkarm, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In it had a population of , mostly religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox Jews. Its municipal jurisdiction is 664 dunams, of which 272 dunams are built up. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
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Israel confiscated 470 dunams of land from the nearby Palestinian village of Ramin in order to construct Einav (and the accompanying bypass roads and military positions), Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural lands in Ramin village Land Research Center. 14 June 2007 in addition to confiscating 20 dunams from Kafr al-Labad.The Expansion of Avni Hefets colony at the Expense of Kufr Al Labbad village . Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2009-08-03.
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The settlement was established in October 1984 by the Poalei Agudat Yisrael movement, and was named after the biblical city of Nahaliel and a book by Isaac Breuer, the founder of Poalei Agudat Yisrael. According to ARIJ, Nahliel was built on land confiscated from two Palestinian towns; 396 dunams from al- Ittihad and 19 dunams from al-Zaitounah.Al-Itihad Town Profile (Beitillu, Jammala & Deir 'Ammar), ARIJ, pp. 16-17AL-Zaytouneh Town Profile, ARIJ, p.
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Today, the town consists of 9,130 dunams of which 1,209 dunams is built-up area. There are four mosques located in the town. Most of the population works in agriculture and herding (40%) or trade and handicrafts (41%), while the 19% work in public sectors. The major families of Azzun are the ‘Adwan, Badwan, Radwan, Salim, Hussein, Sweidan, Zamari (or Zummary), Abu Hanniya, Odah, Hawashah, Tabib, Suleiman, Radi, Mas’ud and Abu Dayyah.
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Al-Muharraqa () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located east of Gaza city. The village laid on rolling terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine, on a bend in the wadi. It had an elevation of and a total land area of 4,855 dunams, most of which was public property, while its built-up area of 29 dunams was Arab-owned. Al-Muharraqa was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Iksal (, Iksal; , Kislot Tavor) is an Arab local council in northern Israel, about southeast of Nazareth. It has an area of 9,000 dunams and a population of primarily Muslim inhabitants.
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31 and the land area was 38,376 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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23 and the land area was 174,172 dunams according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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20 and the land area was 21,151 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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8 while the total land area was 3,605 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 14,186 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 73,332 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 9,393 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 7,189 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 136 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,093 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 2,483 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 10,671 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 4,764 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 6,001 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 3,777 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 3,965 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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16 with a total of 9,038 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 5,883 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 12,887 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 3,558 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 3,726 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Orchards were almost completely destroyed. In addition, 6 livestock farms were destroyed. Some 2,600-4,000 dunams of agricultural land were razed and destroyed. A special Issue at the End of 2004 .
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18 while the total land area was 5,675 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 5,311 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 9,021 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 8,391 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 and a total of 28,022 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 8,207 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 57,710 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 8,186 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 52,196 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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16 while the total land area was 21,676 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 16,333 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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8 while the total land area was 9,214 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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16 with a total of 15,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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19 while the total land area was 13,766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 30,043 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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8 while the total land area was 766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 4,166 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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18 while the total land area was 12,628 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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1945, p. 24 and the total land area was 10,438 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 13,240 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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The total population of Tarshiha combined with Al-Kabri was 5,360 Arabs, with 47,428 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 17,611 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Shuva () is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 4,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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25 with a total of 5,421 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 with a total of 8,028 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 14,186 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 7,283 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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23, p. 280. In total, about 355 dunams of Kafr al-Labad's lands have been added to Avnei Hefetz, while an additional 20 have been confiscated for the settlement of Einav.
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26 while the total land area was 20,231 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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4 while the total land area was 10,399 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Deir al-Hatab () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located east of Nablus, near the neighbouring villages of Salem and Azmout. The village land extends over 12,000 dunams, of which 330 are built-up.Amira Hass, 'Continuous invasions by settlers spoil the joy of Palestinians’ olive harvest,' Haaretz, 26 October 2014. The Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh is established within Deir al-Hatab's jurisdiction, taking up nearly 2,000 dunams of the village's land.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Midya has been under Israeli occupation. According to the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, Al- Midya's total land area was 6,959 dunams in 1942, but after 1948 most of the village's western land was expropriated, leaving 892 dunams, of which 217 were classified as built-up (urban) areas.The series of Israeli annexation and threatening are now targeting Al-Midya village in Ramallah District Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. 14 August 2003.
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The land was owned by two Christian businessmen from Jaffa, Antoine Bishara Tayan and Selim Qassar, and was worked by some thirty tenant farmers. Tayan's property was the larger, some 8,500 dunams, but much of it was in the malarial swamp of the Yarkon Valley. Qassar's smaller block, some 3,500 dunams, lay a few kilometres to the south of the Yarkon River, away from the swampland. It was this healthier area that was purchased on 30 July 1878.
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Dura al-Qar' () or Dura al-Qari'a is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Dura al-Qar' had a population of 2,897 inhabitants in 2007.2007 PCBS Census . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.114. The town's total land area is 4,016 dunams, of which 2,891 dunams have been appropriated by Israel mostly for the purpose of building a by-pass road.
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In the British Mandate period, in the 1931 census Arab al-Baqqara had a population of 245 Muslims, in 34 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 105 By the 1945 statistics the population was 360 Muslims, with a total of 2,262 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 1,961 dunums were used for cereals; 60 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, while a 120 dunams were non-cultivable area.
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Al-Yamun () is a Palestinian town located nine kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate, in the northern West Bank. Al-Yamun's land area consists of approximately 20,000 dunams, of which 1,300 dunams is built-up area. Israeli army's terror and Sabotage actions in Al Yamun town, Jenin District Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2004-07-05. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 16,383 inhabitants in the 2007 census.
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A leisure and sports center was established on an area of about 32 dunams (8 acres) in northeastern Giv'at Shmuel which incorporates tennis courts, fitness rooms, swimming pools, a roller skating rink, a cafeteria and other services, along with water park, covering an area of about 5 dunams (1.25 acre).Nefesh B'Nefesh Website In the center of town there is a park named after the Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Tulkarm was under the control of the Iraqi Army and later annexed as part of the Jordanian-held West Bank. The 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Jordan left roughly 30,000 dunams of Tulkarm's 32,610 dunams of land, mostly agricultural, in Israeli territory. The loss of these lands caused an exodus of many Tulkarm's residents to Transjordan and abroad for employment, while Tulkarm also saw an influx of Palestinian refugees.Thawaba, 2009, p. 37.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Abu Sweirah had a population of 530 Muslims.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics the population of Arab Suqrir consisted of 390 Muslims and the land area was 40,224 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 583 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 489 for plantations and irrigable land, 15,538 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 911 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,927 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40 2,172 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 7,933 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64 3,091 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 6,499 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67 2,788 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 591 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 482 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 508 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, a total of 166 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 8,166 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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26 while the total land area was 16,205 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970 p. 40. 1,322 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,340 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 102 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,880 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 3,234 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,310 were used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of the land, a total of 166 dunams were plantations and irrigable land and 158 were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Zimrat (, lit. Song) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 4,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Givolim (, lit. Stalks) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 3,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Sharsheret (, lit. Chain) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Shibolim (, lit. Ears) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 4,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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17 and 353 dunams from Sarta. Sarta Village Profile (including ‘Izbat Abu Adam Locality), p. 18 The original name of the town was Beit Abba after Abba Ahimeir, a leader of the Lehi.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 226 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 863 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 427 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,202 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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24 who owned 6,946 (rural) and 138 (urban) dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Be'erotayim ( or ) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain and covering 3,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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A map of the West Bank indicating Jifna's location Jifna is located on the slope of a hill, standing at an elevation of about above sea level. It is situated at the intersection of two ancient trade routes, the mountainous north–south route and the east–west route connecting the Jordan Valley with the Mediterranean seacoast. In 1945 its land area consisted of 5,939 dunams, 52 dunams of which were classified as built-up area in 1945.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Israeli President Yitzhak Ben Zvi visiting MK Fares HamdanArab-Jewish Economic Cooperation in Palestine in Baka El-Garbiyya, September 1956 Baqa al-Gharbiyya health clinic, 1950s Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education. In the early years of Israeli independence, Baqa al-Gharbiyye was one of the headquarters of the Israeli military administration.Jiryis, 1976, pp. 24,292 The land holdings of the town, which had been 21,116 dunams in 1945, were reduced to 8,228 dunams by 1962, mostly due to expropriation in 1953–1954.
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The lower river area is now part of the Eshkol National Park, a nature reserve used by tourists. Forest have been replanted there, and hiking trails developed.Nahal Gerar: Native Israeli Trees in the Gerar River Gully The reserve consists of two parts. The first has an area of about 2,000 dunams (2 square kilometers) and is located between Rahat and Tidhar, the other has an area of about 5,500 dunams (5.5 square kilometers) and lies between the villages Ranen and Re'im.
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In 1985, the construction of the town of Maccabim, which was led by the International Maccabi organization began, and the project of founding nearby Re'ut, led by an association of Israeli army officers, started in 1987. The towns were united into Maccabim-Re'ut in 1990. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two Palestinian villages for the construction of Maccabim, presently part of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut: 1,499 dunams from Beit Sira Beit Sira Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 and 471 dunams from Saffa.
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Ma'alul church, in the 1930s At the beginning of the twentieth century, the people of Ma'alul were tenants of the Sursuq family of Beirut, absentee landlords who had acquired the village lands earlier. In 1921 the Sursuqs sold all but 2,000 dunams of Ma'alul's land to the Zionist Palestine Land Development Company.a total of 16,000 dunams, with 90 families, according to List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine, evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930 Zionist pioneers founded the moshav of Nahalal on that land the same year. The remaining 2,000 dunums were insufficient to support the village's population, so at the request of the Mandate government, the company agreed to lease an additional 3,000 dunams to the villagers until 1927.
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In the 1970s Israel collected all the "claims of ownership" in the Negev, without permits and without proof, for the purpose of registering these claims. However, the Bedouin saw the state registry as a recognition for their claims. More than 3,000 ownership claims were filed for the land sized over 800,000 dunams, which includes nearly the whole area between Be'er Sheva – Arad – Dimona and other areas throughout the entire Negev, including those that belong to kibbutzim and cities. In the first years of the arrangement, anyone demanding area of over 400 dunams had the opportunity to get 20% of the land from the Land Registry, and for the rest of the area they would receive financial compensation. Anyone who demanded less than 400 dunams, had received only monetary compensation.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 Of this, 5,529 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 13,656 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 3,383 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 19,732 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 24 dunams were used plantations and irrigable land, 12,424 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62 Of this, 332 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,657 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 6,373 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,896 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62 Of this, 1,486 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,748 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, 1,829 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,603 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60 Of this, 447 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,168 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Nir Am (, lit. Nation Meadow) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near Sderot and covering 20,000 dunams, it fall under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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37 In the 1944/45 statistics, the village had a population of 350 Muslims,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 and 403 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Of this, 1,101 dunams were irrigated or used for plantations, 3,718 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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53 3,248 dunams were allocated for citrus and bananas, 684 were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,406 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46 Of this, 4,172 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 23,656 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Of this, 1,030 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,149 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Tel as-Sabi was 13,000 in December 2005 and 15,700 in December 2010. Tel as-Sabi's jurisdiction measures 5,000 dunams (5 km²).
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61 Of this, 1,284 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,493 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Sdei Hemed (, lit. Pleasant Fields) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Kfar Saba and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49 Of this, 141 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,038 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Magen (, lit. Shield) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the north- western Negev desert and covering 8,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Of this, 334 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,258 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Merkel, 2002, p. 150. It has an average elevation of 385 meters above sea level and is not elevated from its immediate surroundings.Zertal, 2004, p. 244 The total land area of Meithalun is 12,495 dunams.
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After Israeli independence the village became a local council with an area of 7,000 dunams. However, as part of a local government reorganisation in 2003, it came under the control of Emek HaYarden Regional Council.
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75 239 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 491 were plantations and irrigable land, and 8,980 were planted with cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66 Of this, 1,002 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 6,997 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this, 319 dunams were allocated to citrus and banana plants, 474 plantations and irrigable land, 4,733 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Of this land, 183 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 13 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,574 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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48 Of this, 5 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 473 were plantations or irrigable land, 3,750 were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Kfar Maimon (, lit. Maimon Village) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 5,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Gal'ed (, lit. Monument) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Menashe Heights with an area of 14,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13 The land area was 31,730 dunams, according to an official land and population survey,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62 Of this, 232 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 6,215 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Ge'alya, sometimes written Galia (), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Ein Yabrud has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 34.3% of village land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 65.7% is classified as Area C.‘Ein Yabrud village profile, ARIJ, p. 18 Israel has confiscated land from Ein Yarbrud for two settlements: 1,252 dunams for Ofra and 137 dunams for Beit El.‘Ein Yabrud village profile, ARIJ, p. 19 The Jordanian buildings formed the initial basis of the Israeli settlement of Ofra founded in 1975.
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Khan Yunis is to Deir al-Balah's south and Gaza City is located to the north. The city has absorbed the coastal Deir al-Balah Refugee Camp, although it remains outside of Deir al-Balah's municipal administration. While the total land area was recorded as 14,735 dunams (14.7 km² or 1,473.5 hectares) in 1997, the total built-up areas of the city consist of between 7,000 and 8,000 dunams (7–8 km² or 700-800 hectares.) Deir al-Balah is divided into 29 administrative areas.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Deir Muheisin had a population of 113; all Muslims, in a total of 28 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 19 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 460 Muslims, while the total land area was 10,008 dunams (equivalent to the Greek stremma or English/American acre), according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 45 dunams were plantations or irrigated, 7,909 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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The imam of the mosque was a resident from nearby Umm az-Zinat, but was eventually replaced by an imam from Haifa.Benvenisti, 2000, p. 76 In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 550 Muslims. Abu Zurayq had a total land area of 6,493 Turkish dunams, most of which—4,401 dunams—were privately owned by Arabs; the remainder was public property. Of the land, 4,092 was used for grains, the village's principal crop, 282 for plantations and irrigated land, and one dunam for citrus and bananas.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mansura had an all-Muslim population of 41.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41 This had increased in the 1931 census when El Mansura had an all-Muslim population of 89, in 18 houses.Mills , 1932, p. 108 In the 1945 statistics the population was 360, all Muslims, owning 1,254 dunams of land, while Jews owned 175 dunams, and 115 was publicly owned, according to an official land and population survey.
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In 1878 the founders of Petah Tikva learned of the availability of land northeast of Jaffa near the village of Mulabes (or Umlabes). The land was owned by two Christian businessmen from Jaffa, Antoine Bishara Tayan and Selim Qassar, and was worked by some thirty tenant farmers. Tayan's property was the larger, some 8,500 dunams, but much of it was in the malarial swamp of the Yarkon Valley. Qassar's property, approximately 3,500 dunams, lay a few kilometers to the south of the Yarkon, away from the swampland.
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Jerusalem Forest, 2011 In the early years of the state, Jewish National Fund planted thousands of trees along the western edge of Jerusalem, creating a green belt.The Jerusalem Forest, endangered national asset The first tree of the Jerusalem Forest was planted in 1956 by the second President of Israel, Itzhak Ben-Zvi. At its peak, the area of the forest covered 4,700 dunams. Over the years, the boundaries of the forest have receded due to urban expansion, and it now covers only 1,250 dunams.
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In 2013, the Israeli Civil Administration published a master plan (no. 237) which, if approved, would legitimize hundreds of the structures in Eli and incorporate Eli's four outposts, from the land of Palestinian villages As-Sawiye and Al-Lubban ash- Sharqiya, and Quaryut. It covers 1,000 dunams, but would allow the expansion of other outposts to embrace 6,000 dunams, including privately owned Palestinian land. Within the plan's map, there are 7 Palestinian enclaves, where Palestinians may carry out agricultural projects, but are denied the right to build.
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The precise extent of Islamic Waqf lands – Islamic property held in sacred trust for religious purposes – in 1967 is unknown but in 1992 Michael Dumper calculated West Bank waqf properties extended over 600,000 dunams. By 2013 the Israeli occupation authorities were estimated to have expropriated more than 104,996 dunams of waqf holdings, mostly around Jericho. Israel seized, by declaring it state land, even non-arable hilltop land used by pastoralists. The lands of the village of Umm al-Khair were expropriated in this way.
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Lahav (, lit. blade) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located around 20 km north of Beersheba and covering 33,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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4 with over of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,648 dunams were plantations and irrigable land; 3,348 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Kaokab Abu Al-Hija (Israel) Gutterman, Dov. Flags of the World. In it had a population of , and in 2008 was ranked low (3/10) on the Israeli socio- economic scale. Its jurisdiction is 2,567 dunams.
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Kfar Yedidia (, lit. Yedidia Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain and covering 3,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68 Of this, 447 dunams of land was for plantations and irrigable land; 6,047 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Bnei Dror (, lit. Sons of Liberty) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located near Netanya and covering 3,200 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Orot (, lit. Lights) is a moshav in south Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi and covering an area of 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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This section covers approximately 2,700 dunams. The 500-dunam visitors reserve features wading pools filled with natural spring water. Due to ecological concerns, the hidden reserve is closed to the public apart from tours on Fridays.
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Veteran's memorial, Kiryat Malakhi Kiryat Malakhi (, also Qiryat Malakhi or Kiryat Malachi) is a city in the Southern District of Israel, from Ashkelon. In it had a population of . Its jurisdiction is 4,632 dunams (~4.6 km²).
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Mlilot (, lit. Bundle of ripe wheat) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located near Netivot and covering 4,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Of this, 4,850 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 11,765 were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Around 200 dunams of land were planted with olive trees, and there were two presses in the village used to process olives.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sarafand al- Kharab had a population of 385 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21 increasing in the 1931 census to 974; 938 Muslims, 33 Christians and 3 Jews, in a total of 206 residential houses.Mills, 1932, p. 23. Sarafand al-Kharab was one of a number of villages in the Lydda-Ramle district of Mandatory Palestine whose equine population was struck by an epidemic of African horse sickness in 1944, resulting in "stand-still" orders preventing the movement of horses outside of town between September and November 1944 and the deaths of 730 horses in the district.El-Eini, 2004, p. 399 In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 1,040; 930 Muslims and 110 Christians, with a total of 5,503 dunams of land. (3,545 Arab-owned, 1,611 Jewish-owned, 347 public lands) In 1944-45, a total of 4,235 dunams were devoted to citrus and bananas and 499 dunams were allocated to cereals; 64 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Horshim (, lit. Ploughmen) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the south of the Sharon plain and covering 3,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In 2001 Israeli settlers raided the area destroying 25 dunams of olive groves contiguous to Highway 5. Az Zawiya: A model for non- violent resistance against the construction of the Segregation Wall, POICA, Jerusalem 5 August, 2004.
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Sha'ab (; ; meaning "The spur")Palmer, 1881, p.116 is an Arab town and local council in the Northern District of Israel. It has an area of 5,442 dunams () of land under its jurisdiction. In its population was .
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Mills, 1932, p. 101. In 1945 Yanuh had a population of 410, all classified as "others", i.e. Druze,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 05 with 12,836 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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Of these, 1,962 dunams were privately owned by Muslims, and the remainder was public land.Kark and Oren-Nordheim, 2001, p. 241. Zuhur and Deir Cremisan are often included in land and population surveys as part of Sharafat.
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Of this, 170 dunams were used for citrus and banana plants, 95 were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,152 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Sanur's land area in 1945 consisted of 12,897 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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58 In the 1945 statistics, Tira had 3,180 Muslim inhabitants,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 22 who owned a total of 26,803 dunams of land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 A total of 61 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 279 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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405, 410 In the 1945 statistics the population was 370, all Muslims, while the total land area was 2,795 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Ofakim (, lit. "horizons") is a city in the Southern District of Israel, 20 kilometers (12.4 mi) west of Beersheba. It achieved municipal status in 1955. It has an area of 10,000 dunams (~3.9 sq mi; 10 km2).
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Be'er Ya'akov (, lit. Jacob's Well) is a town with local council status in central Israel, near Ness Ziona and Rishon Lezion. The town has an area of 8,580 dunams (~8.6 km²), and had a population of in .
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58 Of this, Arabs used 58 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land and 2,498 for cereals, while Jews used 51 for cereals.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Kfar Yona (, lit. Yona's Village; ) is a city in the Sharon subdistrict in the Central District of Israel. It is about 7 km east of Netanya.Trans-Israel boost, Haaretz With a jurisdiction of 11,017 dunams (~11 km²).
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The area was declared a nature reserve in 1967, covering 1400 dunams. The national park (8509 dunams) includes most of Nahal Arbel, that begins near Eilabun and empties into the Sea of Galilee near Migdal. The reserve covers the immediate area around the cliff. Mount Arbel (left), the valley of Wadi Hamam, and Mount Nitai (right) seen from across the Sea of Galilee On the south side of the cliff, there is a gradual prolonged climb through agricultural and pasture land and from the peak there is a steep 400 meters drop.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Ubeidiya has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 1,377. After 1995, 9.1% of village land is defined as Area A land, 0.4% as Area B, and the remainder 82% as Area C.Al ‘Ubeidiya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 Israel has confiscated land from Al-Ubeidiya in order to construct Israeli settlements; 124 dunams were taken for the construction Avenat, while 97 dunams were taken for ‘Ayn Fashkhah.Al ‘Ubeidiya Town Profile, ARIJ, p.
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The barrier in northern Jerusalem, with the "Biddu enclave" to the left Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Biddu has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 1,259, of whom 567 originated from Israeli territory. After the 1995 accords, 24.8% of Biddu’s land was classified as Area B, the remaining 75.2% as Area C.Biddu Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 Israel has confiscated about 627 dunams of Biddus land for the Israeli settlement of Har Adar (Giv’at HaRadar), and 186 dunams for Giv’on Ha’hadasha.
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In 2006, Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) agreed to pass over its forest lands (or woodlands) to the JNF, this would alter the status of many acres of land. The parks authority looks after about 6 million dunams (1.5 million acres), and the JNF has 1.2 million dunams (300,000 acres). The agreement meant that the JNF would not interfere in the declaration of nature reserves in other places in Israel. The SPNI were very concerned about the agreement, as the JNF is more interested in construction and development instead of nature protection.
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Great Mosque, al-Bireh During the Six-Day War, on June 6, 1967, Israeli troops occupied the city, and Al-Bireh has been under Israeli occupation since. Israel confiscated 346 dunams of land from Al-Bireh in order to build the Israeli settlement of Beit El (established in 1977) in addition to 780 dunams in order to build Pesagot (established in 1981).Al Bireh City Profile ARIJ, p. 17 In 1994, the civil administration of the city was turned over to the Palestinian National Authority under the Oslo Accords.
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The PLDC acquired land for the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Official purchasing organizations such as the Palestine Land Development Company focused on consummating the transfer of some 65,000 dunams of land in the Jezreel Valley owned by the Sursocks. On 18 December 1918, the PDLC concluded an agreement with Nagib and Albert Sursock for the purchase of 71,356 dunams in the Jezreel Valley, including Tel Adashim. The Ottomans tried to limit mass land acquisition and immigration, but had their hands tied by European pressure and also corruption and greed of officials and large landowners.
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The kibbutz Gat was established in 1941 on lands that the Jewish National Fund acquired from the village. Irag al-Manshiyya 1930 1:20,000 (lower right) In the 1945 statistics the population of al-Manshiyya was counted with that of Gat; the two villages had a total population of 2,220; 2,010 Muslims and 210 Jews respectively, with a total of 17,901 dunams of land. Of this, Arabs used 53 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 13,449 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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117 The town is a part of the 'Arab al-Ta'amira village cluster, along with Za'atara, Beit Ta'mir, Hindaza, Khirbet al-Deir and al-Asakra. Tuqu has a municipal jurisdiction of over 191,262 dunams, but its built-up area consists of 590 dunams, as 98.5% of the village's land was classified as Area C, and 1.5% as Area B in the 1995 accordss.'15 Palestinians detained in Tuqu near Bethlehem', Ma'an News Agency 19 March 2015. Situated in the immediate vicinity is the modern Israeli settlement of Tekoa, established in 1975 as a military outpost.
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Shavei Tzion (, lit. Returnees to Zion) is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located between Acre and Nahariya and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Nir Oz (, lit. Meadow of Strength) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. It is located in the northwestern Negev desert between Magen and Nirim, and covers 20,000 dunams. Nir Oz is under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council.
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In the 1945 statistics, the population was 490, all Muslims,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8 with 18,674 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16. The total area of the village was 24,620 dunams, of which 96.1% was Arab-owned, the remainder being public property.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Sajur (; ) is a Druze town (local council) in the Galilee region of northern Israel, with an area of 3,000 dunams (3 km²). It achieved recognition as an independent local council in 1992. In it had a population of .
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Mills, 1932, p. 75 In the 1945 statistics the population was 590, all MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8 while the total land area was 1,493 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Hatzav (, lit. Squill) is a moshav in central Israel. Located on Highway 40 between Gedera and Be'er Sheva, it covers 3,200 dunams and falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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By 1944/45 the village jurisdiction was 10,879 dunams, of which 4,626 was Arab owned, 4,884 was Jewish owned, while 1,369 was publicly owned.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109 while 29 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159 Ma’alul 1947. Photograph from Palmach archives.
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Of this, a total of 13 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 5,185 dunums for cereals, 34 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Khalidi, 1992, p. 49Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mefsalim in 1955 Mefalsim (, lit. Road pavers) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located near the Gaza Strip and covering 11,000 dunams, it fall under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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28Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government , p. 15 The total land area was 6,782 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Mazkeret Batya in the early days, c.1899 Mazkeret Batya () (lit. "Batya Memorial") is a local council in central Israel located southeast of Rehovot and from Tel-Aviv. Mazkeret Batya spans an area of 7,440 dunams (7 km²).
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Tarum (, lit. Exalted) is a moshav in central Israel. Located to the north of Beit Shemesh with an area of 1,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Ta'oz (, lit. Stronghold) is a moshav in central Israel. Located to the northwest of Beit Shemesh with an area of 1,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105. while 41 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105. while 48 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155.
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Mesilat Zion (, lit. Track of Zion) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Beit Shemesh with an area of 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Ganei Am (, lit. People Gardens) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Hod HaSharon and covering 350 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 480 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 while the total land area was 6,879 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Deir Istiya () is a Palestinian town of 5,200 located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, southwest of Nablus. The built-up area of Deir Istiya is 74 dunams, and its old city has about thirty families.
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Hibat Tzion (, lit. Fondness for Zion) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Hadera and covering 4,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Sha'ar Menashe (, lit. Menashe Gate) is a psychiatric medical centre in northern Israel. Located near Pardes Hanna-Karkur with an area of 740 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Maslul (, lit. Path, Way) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Ofakim with an area of 8,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Also a zoo and at least 700 dunams (70 ha) of agricultural land were destroyed. Israel's declared aims of Operation Rainbow were finding and destroying smuggling tunnels, targeting terrorists, and securing the Philadelphi Route by expanding the buffer zone.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66 Of this, 606 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,612 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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46Nazla Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center. 2007-02-09. Of this, 36 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 547 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,141 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 77 Of this, 2,399 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 276 plantations and irrigable land, 28,256 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57. Cultivable land amounted to a total of 866 dunams (30%) (87 hectares), all of which was grown with grains and owned mostly by Arabs.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106. while 29 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156.
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Kfar Daniel (, lit. Daniel Village) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located around four kilometres south-east of Lod and covering 2,900 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In 2005, it was announced that three factories paid for infrastructure costs on 12 dunams. In 2010, Tyreq opened Israel's first tire recycling plant in the park and it will be able to handle 35 000 tons of used tires.
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Neve Yamin (, lit. abode of the right (hand of God)) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Kfar Saba and covering 3,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Bareket () is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around five kilometres north-east of Ben Gurion International Airport and covering 2,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Yatzitz (, lit. [He] shall blossom) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around seven kilometres south of Ramle and covering roughly 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106. while 61 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156.
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Neta'im (, lit. Plantations), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around 4 kilometres south of Rishon LeZion and covering 1,100 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics, the population was 860, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18. with 12,094 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mei Ami () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Wadi Ara around two kilometres south of Umm al-Fahm with an area of 3,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics the population of As-Samu was 2,520, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23 who owned 138,872 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Mills, 1932, p. 43 In the 1945 statistics the population of Sataf was 540, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 and the total land area was 3,775 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Mills, 1932, p. 5. In the 1945 statistics, Al-Khisas had a population of 150 Muslims with a total of 6,269 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Of this, Arabs used 4,639 dunams for citrus and bananas, 1,143 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 2,972 dunums were allocated to cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111. while 36 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 161.
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Maghar (, , also al-Maghar or Mghar; lit. the cave) is a Druze-majority town in Israel's Northern District with an area of 19,810 dunams. Maghar was given the status of a local council in 1956. In it has a population of .
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Kfar Monash (, lit. Monash Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the northern part of the Sharon plain and covering 2,700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Jubbet ad-Dib has a total land area of 402 dunams, of which 8 constitute as built-up area, and is situated at an altitude of 628 meters above sea level.Jubbet adh-Dhib Village Profile. Applied Research Institute- Jerusalem. 2008.
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Uza (, eng. Strength) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located in Hevel Lakhish around two kilometres south of Kiryat Gat and covering 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Mills, 1932, p. 18 In the 1945 statistics the population of Beit Jimal consisted of 240; 120 Muslims and 120 ChristiansDepartment of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 and the land area was 4,878 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Nir Akiva (, lit. Akiva's Meadow) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev near Netivot and Nir Moshe and covering 1,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 16 dunams was built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170 Al-Nabi Yusha'.1945. Survey of Palestine.
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23, p. 280. in total, about 355 dunams of Kafr al-Labad's lands have been added to Avnei Hefetz.The Expansion of Avni Hefets colony at the Expense of Kufr Al Labbad village . Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2009-08-03.
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In the 1945 statistics the population of Indur was 620 Muslims, with a total of 12,444 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Mills, 1932, p. 59 In the 1945 statistics the population was 120, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18 with 3,112 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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By the 20th century, Ma'alul's inhabitants were tenants of the Sursuq family of Beirut, absentee landlords who had acquired the land earlier. In 1921, they sold all but 2,000 dunams of Ma'alul's land to the Zionist Palestine Land Development Company.a total of 16,000 dunams, with 90 families, according to List of villages sold by Sursocks and their partners to the Zionists since British occupation of Palestine, evidence to the Shaw Commission, 1930 Moshe Dayan mentioned Nahalal as an example of "there is not one place built in this country which did not have a former Arab population".
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In the winter of 1885, members of the Old Yishuv in Safed formed the Beit Yehuda Society and purchased 15,000 dunams of land from the village of Ramthaniye in the central Golan.Separation of Trans-Jordan from Palestine, Yitzhak Gil-Har, The Jerusalem Cathedra, ed. Lee Levine, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi and Wayne State University, Jerusalem, 1981, p.306 Due to financial hardships and difficulty in securing a kushan (Ottoman land deed) the site was abandoned a year later. Soon afterwards, the society regrouped and purchased 2,000 dunams of land from the village of Bir e-Shagum on the western slopes of the Golan.
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In 1807, a Sephardic immigrant from Egypt, Rabbi Haim Yeshua Hamitzri (Haim the Jewish Egyptian) purchased 5 dunams on the periphery of the Old City, and, in 1811, signed two lease contracts for 800 dunams of land, among which were 4 plots at Tel Rumeida. The duration of the lease was 99 years. Since his descendant Haim Bajaio, the last Sephardic rabbi in the city, administered it after the Jews left Hebron, it is believed that the lease must have been renewed. These properties were appropriated by the Jordanian government in 1948, and the Israeli government in 1967.
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Historically, Deir Ghassaneh depended primarily on olive cultivation,Carter (ed), 1996, p. 394 and until the present day most of Bani Zeid's cultivable land is covered by olive orchards. The cultivation of other fruit trees is significantly lower, with almonds being a distant second at 240 dunams. Other crops grown include grains which cover 135 dunams and onions, dry legumes and fodder to a lesser degree. Only 1% of the town's residents own livestock and according to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, there were 1,880 goats, 268 sheep, 12 cows and 281 beehives in Bani Zeid in 2009.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tall al-Turnus had a population of 384 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 increasing in the 1931 census, to 504 Muslims in 136 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics the population of Tell et Turmus consisted of 760, all Muslims, and the total land area was 11,508 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 154 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 627 for plantations and irrigable land, 10,403 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 48 Of this, 1,103 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 17,357 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90 while 74 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 140 During the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the villagers initially supported a local rebel group led by Yusuf Abu Durra. However, after local leaders were abducted and murdered, the notables turned to the British, who destroyed the group.
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Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Approximately to the west, on the other side of the Green Line, lies Baqa al-Gharbiyye, ("the western bouquet of flowers") which is under Israeli jurisdiction. Both towns were originally one town, known as Baqa, until the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Prior to the Second Intifada, Baqa ash-Sharqiyya consisted of 4,000 dunams; Israel confiscated about 2,000 dunams of land in order to build the Israeli West Bank barrier.Baqa Al Sharqia: A Palestinian village isolated by the Segregation Wall Land Research Center.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bil'in had a population of 101 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 9 increasing by the 1931 census to 127, still all Muslim, in 32 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 3 In the 1945 statistics, the village together with Ard el Ishra had a population of 180 Muslims, and the land area was 8,036 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 143 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,972 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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According to the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Sawafir al- Sharqiyya had a population of 588 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 increasing in the 1931 census to an all-Muslim population of 787 in 148 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 970 Muslims, with a total of 13,831 dunams of land. Of this, 585 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 386 for plantations or irrigable land, 11,821 dunums were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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The treaty gives Jordan the right to do so on the condition that one years' notice is given, which coincided with the announcement in October 2018. The enclave is next to Tzofar, which comprises 4,500 dunams, of which 1,500 dunams are cultivated as agricultural land, including greenhouses. In practice, it was a demilitarized zone that allowed the residents of Tzofar to do agricultural work from morning until nightfall. In October 2019, Israeli officials said that King Abdullah II of Jordan agreed that Israeli farmers can continue working their crops in Al Ghamr enclave for another season.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 3,917 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 90,637 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 93 while 226 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 143 Dura village lands covered in this period an estimated , which included 99 ruined settlement sites.Magen Broshi, 'The Population of Western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period,' Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 236 (Autumn, 1979), pp.1-10, p.6.
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They also engaged in allied activities, particularly plaiting mats and baskets from esparto grass. The chief crops of al-Damun were wheat, sorghum, barley, and olives, but it was also well known for its watermelons and cantaloupes. In the 1945 statistics the population of al-Damun was 1,310; 1,240 Muslims and 70 Christians,Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945 , p. 2. The village's total land area was 20,357 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 709 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 17,052 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Barbara had a population of 1,369 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 which had increased in the 1931 census to 1546, still all Muslim, in 318 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 2 In the 1945 statistics the population of Barbara consisted of 2,410 Muslims and the land area was 13,978 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 132 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 2,952 for plantations and irrigable land, 9,615 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Qarawat Bani Hassan () is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate, located thirty kilometers southwest of Nablus and 8 kilometers northwest of Salfit in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 3,801 in 2007. Its total land area is 9,684 dunams, of which 507 dunams is built-up area. Since the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 10.7% of its municipal jurisdiction is under the civil administration of the Palestinian National Authority and the security of Israel, while 89.2% is under complete Israeli control.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Isawiyeh had a population of 333, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 14 increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 558; 7 Christians and the rest Muslim, occupying 117 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 40 In the 1945 statistics the population of Isawiya was 730; 720 Muslims and 10 Christians,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 who owned 10,108 dunams of land while 235 dunams had Jewish owners, according to an official land and population survey.
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Map of path of the separation barrier around the Qalqilya and Hableh-Ras Atiya enclaves and the proposed path around Kafr Thulth Kafr Thulth is bordered by Azzun to the south, Sanniriya and Biddya villages to the east and Deir Istiya to the west. In 1948, parts of Kharab and Aizab, such as, Salman, al-Moudwer, al-Sheikh Ahmad, al-Ashqar, Ras Tirah, al-Dabha, Kirash Kherba and Ras Atiya — villages or land areas that originally belonged to Kafr Thulth were separated from the town by the Green Line, which forms the border between Israel and the West Bank. Kafr Thulth's land was extended to the border of the Auja stream and by the 19th century the town's total land area was about 50-60,000 dunams. It had bordered Habla, Jaljuliya, Azzun and Islah, but Kafr Thulth's jurisdiction decreased in 1954; Then, the distance was 924 dunams, while the distance reached up to Kherash Kherba that belong to Kafr Thulth 3,665 dunams.
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Ta'ashur (, lit. Larch) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north- western Negev between Ofakim and Netivot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council and covers an area of around 1,200 dunams. In it had a population of .
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71 In the 1945 statistics the population was 100; all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17 with 32,263 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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49 There were 150 Muslims and 110 Christians.Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government, p. 12 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15 170 dunams of land were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 4,776 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Yashresh (, lit. [He] shall take root) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Shephelah around three kilometres south of Ramle and covering roughly 500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gezer Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Herev Le'et (, lit. Sword to Plowshare) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south of Hadera and covering 1,750 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Harish (, cha-reesh, lit. "ploughed furrow") is a town and a local council in the Haifa District of Israel. Its jurisdiction is an area of 9,736 dunams. It is currently being expanded into a city projected to eventually have a population of 100,000.
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Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee near the Jordanian border and covering 4,200 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Ashdot Ya'akov Meuhad () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the south of the Sea of Galilee near the Jordanian border and covering 4,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Emek HaYarden Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 190 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 1,938 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Kfar Hess (, lit. Hess Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain to the south-east of Tel Mond and covering 3,900 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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43 In the 1945 statistics the population of Sharafat was 210 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 with 1,974 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Kfar Warburg (, lit. Warburg Village) is a large moshav in south-central Israel. Located near Kiryat Malakhi with 98 farms covering an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In 2018 this number went down to 80,000. It covers 230,000 m2 and a total area of 44 dunams (44,000 m2). Tel Aviv central bus station is located near Tel Aviv HaHagana Railway Station, but there is no direct link between them.
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The population in the 1945 statistics was 820, all Muslims, with a total of 8,937 dunams of land; of which 1,471 was public land, the rest owned by Jews.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 160, with a total of 1,832 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mishmeret (, lit. Position or Post) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction and covering 3,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 18 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 136 An elementary school opened in Dimra in 1946, with an initial enrollment of 47 students.
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Bitzaron (, lit. Stronghold) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located on local road 3811, between Gan Yavne and Bnei Ayish, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In its population was ; its area is around 5,000 dunams (5 km2).
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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the population of Pardes Hanna-Karkur was at end of . The land area is 22,596 dunams (~). Pardes-Hanna is governed by the largest local council in Israel by population size (among towns without municipal status).
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Deir Razih () is a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank located southwest of Hebron, in the Hebron Governorate. It relies mainly on nearby Dura for basic services. Its total land area is made of 540 dunams, including its built-up area.
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26 while the total land area was 2,846 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 862 were plantations and irrigable land, 669 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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35 In the 1945 statistics the population of Wady Fukin was 280, all Muslim,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 who owned 9,928 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Beit Hillel () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on the west bank of the Hasbani River, about 5 kilometres from Kiryat Shmona, its 3,500 dunams fall under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. As of it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics, the population was 350 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 and the total land area was 6,639 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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36 In the 1945 statistics the population of Husan was 770, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 who owned 7,252 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Havat Shikmim Havat Shikmim (, lit. "Sycamore Ranch") is a sheep ranch in Israel that belongs to the family of the late Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon. It is located in the northern Negev Desert, near Sderot. The ranch covers 3,823 dunams (4 km²).
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 610, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 9,678 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Tidhar (, lit. Plane tree) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev between Ofakim and Netivot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council and covers an area of around 1,000 dunams. In it had a population of .
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Elyakhin () is a town and local council in the Central District of Israel. Located just south of Hadera and bordering the Emek Hefer Regional Council, it is accessible by local road 5812. With a jurisdiction of 1,600 dunams, it had a population of in .
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Mills, 1932, p. 41 In the 1945 statistics Nabi Samwil had a population of 200, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 with 2,150 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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33 In the 1945 statistics the population of Ar-Rihiya was 330 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23 who owned 2,659 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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39 In the 1945 statistics the population of Biddu consisted of 520 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24 and the land area was 5,392 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 300, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 7,565 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Gazelle in the Pri Har Valley Gazelle Valley (, translit: Emek Hatzva'im), previously known as the Pri Har Valley, is an open space of 260 dunams in the heart of Jerusalem, Israel, on the edge of the Givat Mordechai neighborhood, opposite the busy Patt Intersection.
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The built-up area of the village is 30 dunams. Working residents comprise 66% of the population, of which women represent 31%. The average income is 1,000 NIS. There are no schools or health centers in the village, however, a health clinic is being built.
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In the 1945 statistics, the population of Waldheim/Um el Amad consisted of 260 people, and the total land area was 9,227 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109 while 30 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159 All the inhabitants were Muslim.
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Tifrah (, lit. [She] shall blossom) is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located in the north-western Negev to the west of Eshel HaNasi with an area of 5,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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21 In the 1945 statistics the population of Kharbata was 650, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29 who owned 7,120 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Shokeda () is a religious moshav in southern Israel. Located approximately six kilometres west of Netivot and covering 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sdot Negev Regional Council.Even rockets can't keep Israelis away from towns near Gaza Strip In it had a population of .
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It is located between Kiryat Tiv'on, Kiryat Ata, and Nesher, next to roads 70, 75, and 762. With a jurisdiction of 2,859 dunams (~2.9 km2), it had a population of in . It is ranked low (2 out of 10) on the Israeli socio-economic scale.
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Daburriya gained local council status in 1961. Its jurisdiction extends over 7,200 dunams. In it had a population of . Daburiyya is located off of Highway 65 at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee, near the area where the prophetess Deborah judged.
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251 In the 1945 statistics the population was counted with Saliha and Yaroun, and totalled 1070 MuslimsDepartment of Statistics, 1945, p. 11 with 11,735 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical, and Geographical Studies. Volume 21. This site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif, and is now a National Park.Tel Yarmut National Park (Hebrew) The Park spans over an area of 267 dunams (nearly 66 acres).
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A firebomb kite launched from Gaza caused a large fire in the Be'eri Forest, burning hundreds of dunams of woodland. Ten firefighter teams toiled to extinguish and contain the forest fire.Incendiary kite from Gaza causes massive fire in Be'eri Forest , YNET, 2 May 2018.
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Gan Sorek (, lit. Sorek Garden) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around four kilometres south-west of Rishon LeZion and covering 700 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Muquibleh had a population of 201; 181 Muslims and 20 Christians,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29 where all the Christians were Orthodox.Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47 In the 1931 census the population had increased to 270; 244 Muslims and 26 Christians, in a total of 67 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 69 By the 1945 statistics Muqeible had 460 inhabitants, all classified as Muslims.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 They owned a total of 2,687 dunams of land, while 4,441 dunams were public, a total of 7,128.
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Al-Birwa stood on a rocky hill overlooking the plain of Acre, with an average elevation of 60 meters above sea level. It was situated at the intersection of two highways—one led to Acre and the other towards Haifa. Located 10.5 kilometers east of Acre, the other nearest localities to al-Birwa included al-Damun (depopulated in 1948) to the south, and the Arab towns of Jadeidi to the northwest, Julis to the north, Sha'ab to the east, and Majd al-Kurum to the northeast. Al-Birwa's total land area consisted of 13,542 dunams (13.42 hectares), of which 59 dunams were built-up areas.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Deir Sharaf has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 973, of whom 46 originated from the Israeli territory. After the 1995 accords, 23% of village land was classified as Area B, the remaining 77% as Area C. 236 dunams Deir Sharaf’s land has been confiscated by the Israel for the Israeli settlement of Shavei Shomron, located just north of Deir Sharaf. Deir Sharaf village profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-16 On 3 July 2014, Israeli authorities stated that they were confiscating 16 dunams of land near the village for “military purposes”.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 3,248 dunams were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 324 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 153 Lifta 1945 Lifta 1945 Prior to 1948, the village had a modern clinic, two coffeehouses, two carpentry shops, barbershops, a butcher, and a mosque. In the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine Lifta, Romema, and Shaykh Badr which were strategically located on the road leaving Jerusalem to Tel-Aviv, were an operational priority for Jewish forces.
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During Early Bronze Age III (2700–2200 BCE), the city of Hazor grew to the size of an urban settlement with an area of between 100 and 150 dunams, while all of the plateaus settlements were depopulated. During Middle Bronze Age I (2200–2000 BCE), Hazor shrank to a small village, while in the plateau there was only one settlement in Khirbet Berech. In that period hundreds of megalithic tombs called "Dolmens" were built in the southern part of the plateau. During Middle Bronze Age II (2000–1550 BCE) the size of Hazor reached its peak as a metropolis of 800 to 1000 dunams.
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The subject of a petition concerns 300 dunams of agricultural land, and a further 900 dunams of pasture of which, the Palestinians argue, they were forced by violent attacks from using for agriculture and herding. The court held that the proper option open to the Palestinians was recourse to a civil legal action.Amira Hass,Court asks Palestinians to drop land case against settlers,' at Haaretz, 23 December 2013. Of the 120 complaints registered with Israeli police in Hebron by Palestinians of Susya, regarding alleged attacks, threats, incursions, and property damage wrought by settlers down to 2013, upwards of 95% have been dismissed, without charges being laid.
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A suburb of the city of Nablus, the village is situated on the southern part of Tell Balata, and covers about one- third of the tell. The built-up area was made up of 2.5 hectares (25 dunams) in 1945, and increased to more than 10 hectares (100 dunams) in 1980.Al- Mawsu'a il-Filistiniyya – The Palestinian Encyclopedia, entry on Balata. To the east, is a vast plain, with the ways running east-west leading out through the pass from Jerusalem to Nablus and the coast, and the way to the northeast around Mount Ebal leading down to Wadi Fa'rah and the ford across the Jordan River at Jisr el-Damiyah.
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Al-Asakra () is a Palestinian village in the Bethlehem Governorate in the south-central West Bank, located 4.5 kilometers southeast of Bethlehem. It is a part of the Jannatah municipality. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of over 1,001 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.Projected Mid -Year Population for Bethlehem Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Al-Asakra has a land area of 2,116 dunams and is a part of the larger Arab al-Ta'amira village cluster, lies between the towns of Tuqu' and Za'atara covering an area of 217,236 dunams (21 km²).
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Kasif (Hebrew: כסיף, lit. "Silver") is a future planned Haredi city in the Negev region of Israel. The city will be located at the Tel Arad junction, near Highways 80 and 31. The city is being constructed as a solution to the housing shortage faced by Israel's rapidly growing Ultra-Orthodox population. In the first stage of the construction phase, 10,000 housing units will be built for a population of 50,000 people on 4,759 dunams (1,188 acres) of land, though additional expansion will be carried out later, as the Israeli Interior Ministry expects the city's population to double. The city's total size is expected to cover about 6,400 dunams (1,600 acres).
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Currently, its total land area is about 13,000 dunams of which 2,268 is built-up area.Closing of all the local agricultural roads in Deir Al Ghusun town Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) and Land Research Center (LRC). Since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994, the built-up area of the town increased by over 20% or an annual expansion of 34 dunams by 2000.Spatial and Socioeconomic analysis at micro level: Deir al Ghusun, population, living conditions and urban trends Local Government Ministry of the Palestinian National Authority, Statistics obtained by Mayor of Deir al-Ghusun (Khaled Muhammad) and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. pp.11-13.
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Yifat Holzman-Gazit places the 1976 announcement within the framework of a larger plan devised in 1975. Some 1900 dunams of privately owned Arab land were to be expropriated to expand the Jewish town of Carmiel. Additionally, the plan envisaged the establishment between 1977 and 1981 of 50 new Jewish settlements known as mitzpim (singular: mitzpe) which would consist of fewer than 20 families each. The plan called for these to be located between clusters of Arab villages in the central Galilee affecting some 20,000 dunams (30% of which were to be expropriated from Arabs, 15% from Jews, with the remainder constituting state-owned land).
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Columbarium in Mazor mausoleum Mazor (, lit. Cure) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain around three kilometres south-east of Petah Tikva and covering 2,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Ein Nymphit is named for a perennial spring that produces clean clear water. The water flows from the spring to Nahal Na'aman, filling some pools on the way. The spring is named for the Nymphaea caerulea that grows nearby. The reserve is 62 dunams, declared in 1968.
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Most of Samar's electricity is set to be provided by a 30 m solar power tower that provided 100 kilowatts of energy, as well as the kibbutz's heating needs. The tower was built by the company AORA, sits on 2 dunams (0.2 hectares), and includes 30 mirrors.
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After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the residents were moved to the abandoned German Templer village of Wilhelma. The new moshav, in its present location south of Petah Tikva, was founded in 1953, with each family receiving a two-room house and 25 dunams of land.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81 while 26 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131 The villagers also engaged in livestock breeding and dairy production. The village had a population of 1,050.
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Liman () is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Western Galilee about north of Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In it had a population of . Its area is about 2400 dunams and most residents work in agriculture, including chicken raising.
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In 1965, an 84000-dunam nature reserve was declared. An additional 1199 dunams were declared part of the reserve in 2005. It is the highest reserve in Israel, at an altitude of 1208 meters above sea level, and the largest reserve in the north of the country.
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The old core of the village is situated on a formerly fortified tell,Zertal, 2004, p. 298. which consists of roughly 30 dunams,Zertal, 2004, p. 297. at the summit of Jabal Dabrun. The summit of the Jabal Hureish mountain is 3.5 kilometers east of Jaba'.
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The villagers, who were Muslim, were farmers. In 1945 statistics, it had a population of 960, all Muslims, and a total land area of 17,195 dunams. In 1944/45 of village land was planted with cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Beka'ot (, lit. Valleys) is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley with an area of 1,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.Settlements Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council In it had a population of .
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In the 1945 statistics, Khuza'a (named Khirbat Ikhzaa), had a population of 990, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31 with 8,179 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April 1945.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 135 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 137 Beside crop cultivation, residents raised livestock and poultry.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116 while 20 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 166 A khirba to the east contains rugged stone walls and building remains.
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97 while 101 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 147 On December 13, 1947 twenty-four armed men from Irgun attacked the village approaching from the Jewish town of Petah Tikvah.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 12,610 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168 Several springs in the area provided water.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 121 while 2,481 dunams was non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 171 The village had a school and a mosque.
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Yatir Forest on the edge of the desert Yatir Forest () is a forest in Israel, located on the southern slopes of Mount Hebron, on the edge of the Negev Desert. The forest covers an area of 30,000 dunams (), and is the largest planted forest in Israel.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106 while 129 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156 The first elementary school was established in 1947.
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32 In the 1945 statistics the population of El Jab'a was 210, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23 who owned 5,593 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 82 while 62 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 132 The population of the village in 1945 was 12,607.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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There are over 2,700 dunams of land making up az- Zawiya's jurisdiction, of which 900 is built-up area. Sheep is the main livestock grazed in az-Zawiya. There are also small industries such as sewing, carpentry and metal-working. There are over 120 shops in the town.
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Hevel Eilot Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Hevel Eilot) is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel, near the city of Eilat. It is the southernmost regional council in Israel. Only about 3,300 people live in the council in twelve communities. Its area is about 2.2 million dunams.
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The town has an urban area of about 1,300 dunams. Most of its exterior lands are planted with olives, figs and almonds or covered by forests. Water is provided by five underground wells, with distribution supervised by the town's municipality.The city of Tulkarem and its villages Palestine Information Centre.
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In 1948, Beit HaShita took over 5,400 dunams of land from the newly depopulated Arab villages of Yubla and Al- Murassas.Fischbach, 2012, p. 13 Eleven kibbutz members fell during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the largest number as a percentage of the population than any other town in Israel.
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In the valley north of Jaba', near the road to Sanur, is a site with an area of 15 dunams. Several flint tools were found among olive groves growing at the site.Zertal, 2004, p. 296. Khirbet Sabata to the east of Jaba' contains the remains of houses and wells.
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At its top, there is a slight spur extending to its north, on which leveled field part of the village was formerly built. Together with the higher elevated part they comprise about 15 dunams (3.7 acres).Zissu (2004), p. 8 The mountain is built like a natural fortress.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 95 while a total of 149 dunams were non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 145 The children attended school on Al-Shaykh Muwannis.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 95 while a total of 18 dunams were non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 145 The children attended school on Al-Shaykh Muwannis.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 52 dunams was built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168 The older parts of the village had narrow streets. Most of the houses were adobe, with a few of basalt.
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Mahanayim failed and was abandoned, but reestablished in 1939.Khalidi, 1992, p. 480 In the 1945 statistics, during the British Mandate of Palestine, Khirbat al-Muntar was counted under Mahanayim, and Arabs owned only 52 dunams out of a total of 2,472 dunums of land.Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
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Beit-Ha'Kshatot ("House of the Arches") where Meir Tobianski was executed (1948) Harel (, lit. Mountain of God) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located near Latrun with an area of 12,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Hadera was established in 1891 as a farming colony by members of the Zionist group, Hovevei Zion, from Lithuania and Latvia. By 1948, it was a regional center with a population of 11,800. In 1952, Hadera was declared a city, with jurisdiction over an area of 53,000 dunams.
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Bat Shlomo (, lit. Salomon's Daughter) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on the southern slopes of Mount Carmel near Binyamina and Zikhron Ya'akov, it originally was built on 8,068 dunams of land. It falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council and had a population of in .
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 20 The village lands covered an area of 10,903 dunams: 8,391 of which were owned by Arabs, 570 by Jews, and 1,942 of which were public lands.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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73 In the 1945 statistics the population of Umm al-Ghanam was counted with that of Mount Tabor, and their total land area was 8,409 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Mivtahim (, lit. Safe Havens) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located in the Hevel Eshkol area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border and covering an area of 4,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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6 February 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-01. In it had a population of ; its jurisdiction is spread out over 2,750 dunams (2.75 km²). The international community considers Immanuel along with all other Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
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It has a total land area of 11,917 dunams, of which 25% is used for agricultural purposes. The town's main agricultural products are olives, fruits and wheat.The Expansion of Avni Hefets colony at the Expense of Kufr Al Labbad village . Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2009-08-03.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jura had a population of 1,326 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 increasing in the 1931 census to 1,754, consisting of 1752 Muslims and 2 Christians, in a total of 396 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 4 Al-Jura 1931 1:20,000 Al-Jura 1945 1:250,000 In the 1945 statistics El Jura had a population of 2,420 Muslims, with a total of 12,224 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 481 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 7,192 for plantations and irrigable land, 2,965 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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The second most important economic activity was animal husbandry, in particular, goat herding. Animal ownership was a symbol of social status and pride in the village, and residents gave affectionate names to certain types of animals. Animal herding caused seasonal movement by herders to distant dwellings from the village site, but still in its vicinity such as, Khirbet al-Sura and Khirbet al-'Ammuriyya. Shoe making, carpentry, and tanning were other common occupations in 'Ajjur. In the 1945 statistics, 'Ajjur had a population of 3,730; 10 Christians and 3,720 Muslims, with a total of 58,074 dunams of land. Of this, 2,428 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, 25,227 dunams used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mesmiyet Saghira had a population of 261 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 increasing in the 1931 census when Masmiya El Saghira had an all-Muslim population of 354 in 73 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 5 In the 1945 statistics the population of El Masmiya es Sagira was 530 Muslims, while the total land area was 6,478 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 147 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 7 for plantations and irrigable land, 6,126 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 334 inhabitants, consisting of 333 Muslims and 1 Christian,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8 increasing in the 1931 census to an all-Muslim population of 454 in 77 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics the population of Sawafir esh Shamaliya was 680 Muslims, while the total land area was 5,861 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 670 dunams were used citrus and bananas, 10 were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,894 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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During the British Mandate period, the village expanded toward the southwest and relied on al- Faluja for commercial, medical, and administrative services. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Summail had a population of 561 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub- district of Gaza, p. 9 increasing in the 1931 census, to 692, still all Muslims, in 178 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics the population of Summeil consisted of 950 Muslims and the total land area was 19,304 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 54 dunams were used plantations and irrigable land, 18,720 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the early 1870s, the Spanish consul in Jerusalem bought over 5,000 dunams of land from the villagers of Artuf, which he sold to the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. Jerusalem and its environs: Quarters, neighborhoods, villages, 1800-1948, Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim After the pogroms against the Jews in Eastern Europe in 1882, the society used some of the money raised to help the Jewish refugees to purchase land in Artuf. Towards the end of 1883, 24 Jewish families were settled there, each receiving 150 dunams of farmland, farm animals and tools. Due to economic difficulties and the lack of water, some of the land was leased to Arabs.
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FOSH unit passes through Yasur, 1938/39 In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yasur had a population of 456 inhabitants, all Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 9 In the 1931 census, Yasur had 129 occupied houses and a population of 648 Muslims, 5 Christians and 1 Jew.Mills, 1932, p. 6 In the 1945 statistics the population of Yasur consisted of 1,070 Muslims and the total land area was 16,390 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 636 dunams for citrus and bananas, 180 for plantations and irrigable land, 12,173 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Arraba from the road leading to its northern limit The government of Israel declared its intention to expropriate lands in the Galilee for official use, affecting some 20,000 dunams of land between the Arab villages of Sakhnin and Arraba, of which 6,300 dunams was Arab- owned.Endelman, 1997, p. 292. On March 11, 1976, the government published the expropriation plan.Demythologizing Land Day by Jerusalem Post Yiftachel writes that the land confiscations and expansion of Jewish settlements in the northern Galilee formed part of the government's continuing strategy aimed at the Judaization of the Galilee which itself constituted both a response to and catalyst for "Palestinian resistance", culminating in the events of Land Day.
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During the Second Intifada, the residents of Bardala stopped paying both water and electricity bills to the Palestinian National Authority, and, as a consequence the Palestinian authorities have delayed implementing infrastructural works, such as a dam and a water network for the village. Israel placed restrictions on villagers' movements at the same time, rendering access to their lands to cultivate or harvest crops impossible. Since 2000, 200 dunams of vegetable crops have been bulldozed and many trees uprooted, and 4,000 dunams have been confiscated. In March 2012, a UN report listed the spring Ein El Azut, belonging to Bardala, among a number of springs which had been illegally taken over by Israeli settlers.
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In 1807 the immigrant Sephardic Rabbi Haim Yeshua Hamitzri (Haim the Jewish Egyptian) purchased 5 dunams on the outskirts of the city and in 1811 he signed a contract for a 99-year lease on a further 800 dunams of land, which included 4 plots in Tel Rumeida. The plots were administered by his descendant Haim Bajaio after Jews left Hebron. Settlers' claims to this land are based on these precedents, but are dismissed by the rabbi's heir.. In 1984, settlers established a caravan outpost there called (Ramat Yeshai). In 1998, the Government recognized it as a settlement, and in 2001 the Defence Minister approved the building of the first housing units.
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Kfar Hittim Tnu'at HaAvoda Two thousand dunams of land, consisting of 400 small parcels, were purchased from the Arab village of Hittin. The first attempt to settle there in 1913 failed due to friction with the local Arabs, the shortage of water and the lack of contiguity of the land.
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An important geological survey was conducted in 1944–1945. The survey included 2,450 samples spread over 2.7 million dunams (2,700 km2). It concluded, among other things, that most of the Negev's soil was deeper than 2 m and of the loess type. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted meteorological surveys.
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Bizzariya is situated on Mount 'Ilan, which has a summit of 588 meters above sea level. The village's average elevation is 450 meters above sea level. The old core of the village consists of two dunams and mostly contains half-ruined houses, with some more modern homes.Zertal, 2004, p. 313.
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Ramot HaShavim (, lit. Heights of the Returnees) is a Jewish village in central Israel.The History of Jewish Agricultural Settlement in Palestine, Alex Bein Located between Hod HaSharon and Ra'anana and covering around 2,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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Menahemia () is a village in the Jordan Valley in north-eastern Israel. Located near Highway 90 between Beit She'an and Tzemah Junction 5 km south of Tzemah, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. With an area of 6,000 dunams, the village had a population of in .
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After acquiring the Segal Winery in 2001, Barkan became Israel's second largest winery. In 1990, a new facility opened at Kibbutz Hulda. The Hulda vineyard, covering over 1,200 dunams, is the largest single vineyard in Israel. The location was chosen for its proximity to the Hulda vineyards and major Israeli highways.
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Each of the family farm units covers 50 dunams (50,000 m²). The main crops are high quality peppers and flowers for export. In addition, 14 of the families run a cowshed of 40-45 dairy cows each. Among the smaller farm branches are a date palm orchard and turkey production.
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Nir Moshe (, lit. Moshe's Meadow) is a moshav in southern Israel with an elevation of 145 m from sea level. Located in the north-western Negev south- east of Sderot with an area of 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merhavim Regional Council. In it had a population of .
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In 2002, 42,000 dunams in Timna Valley were declared a nature reserve, ending all mining activity within the reserve's area. Gazelles and ibex still roam the area, but an image of these animals with ostriches found on a high ridge of sand suggests that ostriches once lived here, as well.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 93 while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 143 The villagers used to obtain drinking water from three wells on the northern outskirts of the village.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90 while 60 dunams were classified built-up, (urban), land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 140 The site has several ancient ruins, including mosaics and tombs.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116 while 2,377 dunams were classified as non- cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 166 Khirbat Zakariyya was destroyed with the exception of its well.
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35 dunums of land was attached to the school. A school for girls was founded in 1945, and had an initial enrollment of 78 students. In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 1,160, all Muslim,Department of Statistics, p. 30 and the total land area was 10,822 dunams.
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Bayt Jibrin (, also transliterated Beit Jibrin; , Beit Gubrin), was a Palestinian village located northwest of the city of Hebron. The village had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or , of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 101 while 158 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 151 Between 1922 and 1947, the population of Abu Dis increased by 110%.
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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the population of Lakiya was 9,943 in December 2010 (7,600 in December 2004). Its annual growth rate is 3.1%. Lakiya's jurisdiction is 5,728 dunams (5.7 km²). There are several Bedouin clans residing in Lakiya, al-Sana being the largest among them.
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Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 The land area was counted together with those of Shavei Zion, Ein Sara and Ga'aton and totalled of 7,407 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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During 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 14,000 dunams of Deir al-Ghusun land were seized by Israel. In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Deir al-Ghusun came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950. In 1961, the population was 3,376.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr al-Labad has been under Israeli occupation. In 1995, the Israeli military confiscated about 200 dunams of Kafr al-Labad's lands to enlarge the nearby Israeli settlement of Avnei Hefetz.The Middle East: Abstracts and Indexes. Library Information and Research Service, 1999. Vol.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 659 dunams of land from the nearby Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in order to construct Nofim.Deir Istiya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 The settlement was established in 1981. As of 2013, property was being developed to accommodate a growing need for housing in the town.
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The site of Kafr Misr has been inhabited from at least the late Roman period, with archeological excavations indicating the existence of Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities, at various periods. The village's jurisdiction in 1924 was about 3,300 dunams, but today it is about 1,000 dunams.Kufur Masser Bustan al-Marj Regional Council.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 65 Of this, 3,512 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,434 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112 while 33 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The old core of the town consists of 18 dunams. Khirbet Khaybar, to the northeast of the town, is part of Meithalun's jurisdiction. It has an elevation of 423 meters above sea level and consists of ruins, namely the remains of a wall, building foundations, a tomb and water tanks cut from stone.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64 Of this, 2,961 were plantations and irrigable land, 1,423 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112 while 40 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Karmei Yosef was founded in 1984 by former residents of Ness Ziona and Rehovot, and was named after Yosef Sapir. Karmei Yosef is spread out over approx. 1640 dunams (approx. 410 acres) 200–260 meters above sea level, and borders the Ayalon Valley to the North and the Meginim Forest to the South.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162 Today Jifna has a total jurisdiction over 6,015 dunams, 420 of which are designated as built-up and roughly 2,000 planted with olive, apricot and other fruit trees. The village is located northwest of Ramallah and al-Bireh and about north of Jerusalem.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 1,049 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of FasayilFasayil Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ in order to construct Tomer. The village was established in 1976, and was named after the trees common in the area. In March 1978 it moved to its present location near Highway 90.
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Most of the stream is part of a nature reserve that bears its name. The reserve, declared in 1972 covers 7650-dunam and part of it reaches the Israel-Lebanese border. In 2009, 1225 dunams were added to the reserve. Flora in the area includes Nerium oleander, Platanus orientalis, and Adiantum capillus-veneris.
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Beit Ijza (, also spelled Bayt Ijza); is a village in the Jerusalem Governorate in the central West Bank with an area of 2,526 dunams. Located approximately six miles north of Jerusalem, it had a population of 698 in 2007.Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). 2008.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 114 while 12 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 164 An elementary school for boys was completed in 1947 with around 35 pupils.
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50 The population in 1945 was 730, expanding to 847 in 1948. In 1945 the village's total land area was recorded as 11,511 dunams, 8,623 of which was Arab owned while 2,153 duname were owned by Jews with the remainder being public property. Al-Hamra was situated 175 meters below sea level.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while they had 18 dunams as built- up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 137 In 1947, an oil drilling project commenced in Hulayqat employing 300 Arab workers.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 28 dunams were classified as built-up, or urban area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168 The children in the village went to school in Safad.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 61 dunams were classified as built-up, or urban area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170 An elementary school for boys was founded during this period.
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Baqa-Jatt was an Israeli Arab city in the Haifa District of Israel established in 2003 through a merger of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Jatt. However, the merger was dissolved on 1 November 2010. Encompassing an area of 18,100 dunams (18.1 km²), Baqa-Jatt was part of the region known as the Triangle.
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They drew their drinking and domestic water from six different springs. By the 1945 statistics, the village population was 720 Muslims, and the total land area was 18,546 dunums of land. 360 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards, 11,139 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Local Elections (Round Four)- Successful lists by local authority and No. of votes obtained. Central Elections Commission-Palestine. p.6. The town's mayor is Hasan al-Amouri. Al- Fukhari's total land area consists of 4,767 dunams of which 37.3% is built-up (overwhelmingly residential) and most of the remainder used for agricultural purposes.
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Islamic rule over Jerusalem began in 638 under the Rashidun Caliphate and persisted for some 1,400 years, interrupted only by the periods of Crusader rule between 1099–1187 and 1229–1244. Throughout much of this period, Mamilla cemetery was the largest Islamic cemetery in the city, containing the remains of emirs, muftis, Arab and Sufi mystics, soldiers of Saladin and numerous Jerusalem notables. The cemetery is said to be the burial site of several of the first Muslims, the Sahabah, companions or disciples of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. In 1945, The Palestine Post said it covered an area of over 450 dunams (111 acres), while Haaretz in 2010 said that at its peak, it covered an area of 200 dunams (some 50 acres).
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58 Of this, a total of 1,517 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,274 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 21 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 153 In 1947–1948, the road to Jerusalem was blocked, as passage through the hills surrounding Jerusalem was crucial for getting supplies to the Jewish parts of the besieged city. Of the 36 Arab Muslim villages in these hills, Abu Ghosh was the only Muslim one that remained neutral, and in many cases helped to keep the road open for Jewish convoys.
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In 2006, there were 212 shops, eight restaurants, a wheat mill, a pickle factory and other industries such as cheese and jam production. In 1997, Tammun's labor force made up 67% of the town's population. However, 66.3% were non-economically active. Women constituted 34% of the labor force. Tammun's average income dropped from 1,500 NIS before 2000 to 600 NIS in 2004 — a decrease of 60%. Tammun has a total of 25,000 dunams of cultivated land, of which 4,166 are grown with fruit orchards, 3,560 for field crops, 600 dunams for vegetables and 120 are used for greenhouses. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture, Tammun produces five tonnes of olives, 3,500 tonnes of vegetables and 2,500 tonnes of field crops per annum.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Of this, 581 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,827 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while 33 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Reshaping Palestine: From Muhammad Ali to the British Mandate, 1831-1922, Martin Sicker In 1890, six houses were built with the help of Hovevei Zion from London. In 1906, the population was 33, and land area was 3,500 dunams (3.5 km2). A Hashomer scheme to settle more farmers there in 1913 was not successful.
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By the 20th century, the village had two elementary schools, one for boys, and one for girls. The school for boys was established during the British Mandate in Palestine in 1920. It housed a library of 600 books and had acquired 15 dunams of land that were used for instruction in agronomy.Khalidi, 1992, p.
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Khirbet Beit Yarub is located two kilometers north of the village and covers an area of 7.5 dunams. Among the ruined structures is the tomb (maqam) of Neby Yarub ibn Ya'qub (the prophet Yarub son of Jacob).Palmer, 1881, p. 189 The tomb is a square-shaped building with a dome and containing two rooms.
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See also , particularly the section titled Emigrants and Immigrants: An Overview. The article Jewish land purchase in Palestine has some information on Ottoman restrictions on Jewish land purchases and settlement. The Arab intermediary through whom they were to have been purchased 4000 dunams near Hebron in 1875 decided to buy the land for himself.
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Givat HaMatos () is an Israeli settlement which hosted Ethiopian Jewish and Russian immigrants in caravans.The forgotten poor of Givat Hamatos It encompasses an area of 170 dunams. It is bordered by Talpiot in the north, Gilo in the south, and Beit Safafa in the west. Israel has approved to build a new Israeli settlement there.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122 while 63 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 172 Ma'dhar had a school founded by the Ottomans, but closed during the British Mandate period.
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The name "Kfar Aviv" was given as a reference to the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, which occurred in spring as recorded in the Torah (Exodus 34:18). As time passed, the village absorbed families from Poland. The land area used for farming covers about 2,000 dunams. Most inhabitants of the village work elsewhere.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57 Of this, 43 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,359 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102 while 102 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine, Atara had a population of 407 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-District of Ramallah, p. 16 increasing in the 1931 census to 559 Muslims in 133 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 47 In 1922, the Jewish National Fund established a moshav on 500 dunams of land.
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South-east of the moshav is a nature reserve, first declared in 1967, and expanded in 1997, 140 dunams in total. The reserve is in an old quarry, where the water table has risen, allowing a concentration of aquatic plants to flourish. Flora includes Salix acmophylla and Tamarix trees, Rubus sanguineus, Reeds, and Cattails.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64 Of this, 6,908 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,414 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111 while 402 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 625 dunams of land from the nearby Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in order to construct Nofim.Deir Istiya Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 The settlement was founded in 1986 on state lands by a group of secular Jewish Israelis. The Kana Stream passes to the north, west and south.
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During the 1940s, the British administration funded modern water and agriculture development projects as well as an elementary school. In the 1945 statistics the population was 630 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 with 4,079 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Huwara has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 38% of Huwwara land was classified as Area B, the remaining 62% as Area C.Huwwara Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 15 Israel has confiscated 282 dunams of Huwwara land for the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.Huwwara Town Profile, ARIJ, p.
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At the southern end of the hotel strip is the Herzliya Marina, which covers an area of 500 dunams (0.5 km²). The marina complex includes the Arena shopping mall and a variety of restaurants overlooking the water. It is the largest marina in Israel. In the southeast part of Herzliya Pituah is the industrial zone.
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Mills, 1932, p. 106 In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 590 Muslims, with a total of 23,044 dunams of land. Of this, a total 4,701 dunums of village land was used for cereals and 611 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Bal'a's primary source of income is agriculture. The town's land area consists of about 23,000 dunams most of which is arable land. The town annually produces an average 10,000 tons of olive oil with olives being the main cash crop of Bal'a and surrounding towns and villages. Other common orchards include figs, apricots and almonds.
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Residents mainly cultivated grains, fruits, and vegetables. In the 1945 statistics, the population was 1,420, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17 with a total of 23,920 dunams of land. In 1944/45 a total of 22,595 dunums of village land was allocated to cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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This group leased some of the land to local Arabs and acquired more tracts for settlement. The plan was to ready the land for sale to individuals and groups. When the venture proved unsuccessful, the Jewish National Fund bought 375 dunams of the best land. It was on this land that Atarot was established.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 84 while 169 dunams were classified as uncultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 134 The area was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and rebuilt approximately west in what is now Gesher, Israel.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80 while 21 dunams were built-up (urban) area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 130 The village houses, made of stone with mud mortar, were bunched close together and separated by semi-circular, narrow alleys.
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Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem. 2008. Retrieved on 2012-03-12. In the 2007 census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 18,045.2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118. It has municipal jurisdiction over 117,000 dunams, 6,000 of which is built-up area and 11,715 of which is cultivated.
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The latter was a traditional ally of the Abd al-Hadi clan, who had economic and political ties to the Ruba'iya.Swedenberg, 2003, p. 132 In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,360, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16. with 12,495 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1945 census, during the British Mandate era, Khirbat Tura el Gharbiya was counted with Barta'a, and together they had a population of 1,000 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 with 20,499 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Suhmata's tobacco had a reputation for quality. In the 1945 statistics, Suhmata had a population of 1,130; 1060 Muslims and 70 Christians, with a total of 17,056 dunams of land. Of this, a total of 3,290 dunums was allocated to cereals; 1,901 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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The village was situated on a rocky hill near the road linking Ra's al-Naqura with Safad. Its houses were made of stone. A dirt path linked it to the coastal highway and thence to Acre. The villagers cultivated grain, figs, and olives. In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 200 Muslims, with 1,872 dunams of land.
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Al-Birwa (, also spelled al-Birweh) was a Palestinian Arab village, located east of Acre (Akka). In 1945, it had a population of 1,460, of whom the majority were Muslims and a significant minority, Christians. Its total land area consisted of 13,542 dunams (13.5 square kilometers). The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Mills, 1932, p. 110 Safsaf. 1945. Survey of Palestine In the 1945 statistics the population was 910 Muslims, with a total of 7,391 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 2,586 dunums were allotted to cereals; 769 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Benvenisti, 2000, p. 127 Al- Khalisa, 1946 In the 1931 census of Palestine, the population of El Khalisa was 1,369; 1,340 Muslims, 3 Jews and 26 Christians, in a total of 259 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 107 In the 1945 statistics, its population was 1,840, of which 20 were Christians, and the total land area were 11,280 dunams.
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According to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem, Jinsafut has a land area of 9,335 dunams; 31.8% is used for growing crops, 4.3% are for heterogeneous agricultural areas, 1.9% for herbaceous vegetation associations, 5.2% is designated as arable land, 3% is built-up area, 8% is used for land for Israeli settlements and the remainder is forest area.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 514 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Al-Jiftlik in order to construct GititAl Jiftlik Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ in addition to 1,085 dunums from Aqraba for Gitit and Itamar.Aqraba Town Profile (including Yanun Locality), ARIJ, p. 16 The village was established in 1972 as a Nahal settlement.
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Education services in Salfit are provided by four modern schools in addition to the Al-Quds Open University campus.Al-Quds Open University. The Salfit Governorate is also an area that is well known in the field of stone cutting and marble. An industrial zone was established on 200 dunams of land at the east end of Salfit.
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These were then slowly transformed into civilian settlements, often without official approval. This could be justified as legal because they were initially IDF bases without civilians. Another technique was to render land momentarily unusable. Gitit for example was established by closing off 5,000 dunams of the village lands of Aqraba and then spraying it with defoliants.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted in Mandatory Palestine authorities, Al- Bira had a population of 200 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing in the 1931 census to 220, still all Muslims, in 53 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 77 In the 1945 statistics, the population consisted of 260 Muslims, with a total of 6,866 dunams of land.
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The family farm, on a plot of 650 dunams, was located near a malaria-ridden swamp. Two of Dubrovin's sons and two grandchildren died of the illness. Dubrovin eventually moved most of his family to Rosh Pinna, leaving behind his eldest son, Yitzhak, to manage the buildings, fruit orchards, and gardens. Dubrovin was granted many awards in agriculture.
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33/ ATQ 676. Cited in Petersen, 2001, p. 139 The shrine of "Sheikh Manṣur" is thought to be that of Rabbi Tanḥum of Parod. (Hebrew) The British built here a fortified police station. In the 1945 statistics the population was 670 Muslims, with a total of 19,747 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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Segev, 2013, p. 324 In the 1945 statistics, Qalunya had a population of 900 Muslims and 10 Christians, while Motza had a population of 350 Jews. The total land area was 4,844 dunams. A total of 1,224 dunums of land were irrigated or used for plantations, 955 were used for cereals;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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109 Its economy was based on animal husbandry and crop cultivation, mainly grains, figs, pomegranates, and grapes as well as olives which by 1943 covered 77 dunams. In the 1945 statistics the population was 240 Muslims, and the total land area was 2,441 dunums;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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Planning for Ir Ganim began in 1953. It was designed for a population of 8,000-10,000 new immigrants on 1,577 dunams of land.Jerusalem neighborhoods: Ir Ganim and Kiryat Menachem The first 500 housing units were built by the Rassco company employing a higher standard of building than other new immigrant neighborhoods. Each home had a private garden.
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In the 1931 census, there were 218 people living in Dayr Rafat. In The 1945 statistics the village had a population of 430 inhabitants; 330 Muslims and 100 Christians. with a total of 13,242 dunums of land. Of this, 216 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 10,563 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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Dayr al-Shaykh was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village was occupied by Israel's Har'el Brigade, probably on October 21, 1948 during Operation ha-Har. No Jewish locality was built on village lands which amounted to 6,781 dunams in 1945. The mosque of Shaykh Sultan Badr remains and is currently a tourist attraction.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 103 while 13 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 153 Khirbat al-Lawz had a shrine dedicated to a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salama.
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Basma (, ) is an Israeli Arab local council in the Wadi Ara area of Haifa District. The local council was formed in 1995 through the consolidation of the villages of Barta'a West, Ein as-Sahala, and Muawiya; Basma is an acronym of the villages' names. In it had a population of . Basma's jurisdiction area covers 3,956 dunams.
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In 1925 the village school was founded. By the mid-1940s it had 108 students, including 9 girls. At the time of the 1931 census, Abu Kishk had a population of 1007 residents, all Muslims.Mills, 1932, p. 16 In the 1945 statistics Abu Kishk had 1,900 Muslim residents, who owned a total of 17,121 dunams of land.
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Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 88 while 29 dunams were built-up, urban, land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 138 Ni'ilya students attended school in al-Majdal. A school was built in the village in 1948 shortly before the war but never opened.
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Turkish owner, Sidki Pasha, brother of Jamal Pasha, sold 4,000 dunams of the Burj farmland to ICA in 1903.Ramat Hanadiv excavations: final report of the 1984-1998 seasons, by Yizhar Hirschfeld, Adrian J. Boas, p. 664 The serious drawback was that most of the land was an uncultivable swamp. Rothschild turned the land over to Binyamina's holdings.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123 while a total of 6,424 dunams were classified as non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 173 al-Samakiyya had an Italian monastery, a Franciscan church, and a Greek Orthodox church.
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The population of Baysamun in the 1922 census of Palestine consisted of 41 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, p. 42 increasing to 50 Muslims in 11 houses by 1931.Mills, 1932, p. 105 In the 1945 statistics the population was 20 Muslims, with a total of 2,102 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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According to the 1931 census of Palestine, one Christian lived there, and the remainder were Muslim.Mills, 1932, p. 106Most of the residents were farmers.Khalidi, 1992, pp. 444-445 In 1939 the Kibbutz ‘Amir was founded nearby, and Sde Nechemya in 1940. In the 1944/45 statistics Dawwara had population of 700 Muslims, where Arabs owned 2,753 dunams of land.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 2,025 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170 The Jewish settlement of Eyal was founded on village land in 1947, but was destroyed in the 1948 war.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 124 Muslims, in a total of 27 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 106 By the 1945 statistics the population was 220 Muslims, with a total of 2,933 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ez Zawiya had a population of 590 Muslims, in a total of 141 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 760. with a total of 3,958 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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92 In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Zarnuqa as a large adobe village "with cactus hedges around it and wells in the gardens."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 414 In 1890, the region between Zarnuqa and Ramle, a stretch of 10,000 dunams, was described by Zionist sources as an uncultivated wasteland.
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Hirbiya had a mosque and elementary school, both located in the village center. The school opened in 1922 and had an enrollment of 124 students in the 1940s. In 1945 Hiribya had a population of 2,300; 2,200 Muslims, 40 Christians and 60 Jews, with a total of 22,312 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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Awarta () is a Palestinian town located southeast of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,623 inhabitants in 2007.2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.109. Awarta's built-up area consists of 540 dunams and it is governed by a village council.
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According to ARIJ, Kfar Adumim is located on 820 dunams of land which Israel confiscated from the Palestinian town of 'Anata.'Anata Town Profile ARIJ, 2012, p. 19 Kfar Adumim was established in September 1979. Its first settlers were 10 families that had seceded previously from the group which founded Ma'ale Adumim and had been living in Mishor Adumim.
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In the 1922 census the population of the village was 222, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30 increasing in 1931 census to 256 residing in 50 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 69 During the British Mandate, the total land area of Musmus was around 6,000 dunams and its boundaries reached the Jezreel Valley.
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Known as Ataroth, it was one of the first Zionist hill settlements. In the 1945 statistics the population of 'Atara was 690 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 9,545 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted in Mandatory Palestine authorities, Farwaneh had a population of 84 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing in the 1931 census to 286, still all Muslims, in 72 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 78 In the 1945 statistics, the population was 330 Muslims, with a total of 4,996 dunams of land.
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Morris, 2004, p. 357 Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. Kibbutz Beit HaShita and the Gush Nuris villages were given thousands of dunams of land from Yubla and the neighbouring villages of al-Murassas, Kafra, Qumiya, and Zir'in by the Histadrut's Agicrultural Center in July and October 1948.Fischbach, 2012, p.
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Ir Amim, February 2013 Since the 1949 agreements, the neighborhood has been divided by the Green Line. Until 1967, the East Jerusalem part remained under Jordanian rule while the northern parts became under Israeli rule.Upending the Traditional Arab Countryside Home Beit Safafa covers an area of 1,577 dunams. In 2010, Beit Safafa had a population of 5,463.
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Brenner Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Brenner; ), is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. It is located in the coastal plain, in the vicinity of Rehovot and Yavne. The council is named after writer Yosef Haim Brenner, killed in the Jaffa riots of 1921. The Council was established in 1950, with a jurisdiction of 36,000 dunams.
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According to ARIJ, in 1980 Israel confiscated 438 dunams of land from the Palestinian villages of Al-Jiftlik,Al Jiftlik Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ Beit DajanBeit Dajan Village Profile and Beit FurikBeit Furik Town Profile in order to construct Mekhora. The moshav was founded in 1973 by a Nahal brigade, and was originally named Nahal Mekhora.
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The community was established on 22 April 1939 by Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia. After spending eight years in a camp near Kfar Saba, they founded the kibbutz on 28 August 1947,First first and last last HaOgen on land that had belonged to Wadi Qabbani. The Jewish National Fund provided 700 dunams of land for the kibbutz.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Dajan came under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 38% of the village land is defined as being in Area B, while the remaining 62% is Area C.Beit Dajan Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15 Israel has confiscated 199 dunams of village land for two Israeli settlements; Hamra and Mekhora.
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Positioned off the road between Tubas and Ibziq, nearby localities include Tayasir to the east, Tubas 4 kilometers to the south, 'Aqqaba 2 kilometers to the west and Raba to the north. The total land area is roughly 5,000 dunams, 1,880 of which is cultivated with much of the remaining designated for agriculture, grazing and forests.
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Were the 326,400 dunams theoretically open to Palestinian use made available, the World Bank calculates, it would add $US 1,068 billion to Palestinian productive capacities. Another 1,000,000 dunams could be exploited for grazing or forestry, were Israel to lift its restrictions. The World Bank estimates that were Palestinian agriculture given access to better water resources, they would benefit by a boost in agricultural output of around $1 billion per annum. Israel's control of land, water, trade and markets, and its specification and rigorous restrictions on what could be grown, is held responsible for the decline of agriculture as a share of West Bank GDP, and the drop of agricultural labourers in the work market from 46% to 27%, so that from 1993 to 1995 output declined by 40.12%.
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Rafat () is a Palestinian town, located approximately southwest of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank in the northern Jerusalem Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 2,100 in 2006.Projected Mid -Year Population for Jerusalem Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Its total land area consists of 3,773 dunams.
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Some 8,000 dunums remain uncultivated because of Israeli practices of confiscating land and building settlements, or from water shortages and lack of developmental capital. Almost 2,000 dunams of land are reserved for olive cultivation. Livestock breeding and bee-keeping also form a significant element in the local economy. Halhul has a twin city arrangement with the French town of Hennebont in Brittany.
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The population of Umm al- Faraj lived by agriculture. In the 1945 statistics, the population of Umm al- Faraj was 800, all Muslims, with a total land area of 825 dunams. In 1944/45 a total of was used for citrus and bananas, were used for cereals, were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967 Ein Qiniya has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords 12.1% of village land was classified as Area B, the remaining 87.9% as Area C. 'Ein Qiniya Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 16 Israel has confiscated 157 dunams of village land in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Dolev.'Ein Qiniya Village Profile, ARIJ, p.
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In 1873, Kitchener and Conder, on a surveying mission with the Palestine Exploration Fund, visited the site and mentioned it as being "a large ruin, which stands upon the terraced hill top."Conder & Kitchener (1881), p. 235. A survey later conducted at the site reveal that the village had occupied an area of about 70 dunams (17.3 acres).Aviam (2008), p.
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The main site next to Mishmar HaEmek is Tel Shush, which is just north of the kibbutz's buildings. It is a tell with an area of 40 dunams (10 acres) situated on one of the Menashe Heights hills. The mound rises to a height of 50 meters above the valley below it. The site was surveyed in 1949 and 1975.
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Bat Hefer (, lit. Daughter of Hefer) is a community settlement in the Sharon plain in Israel. Located east of Netanya and adjacent to two kibbutzim; Bahan and Yad Hana, it covers 1,000 dunams and falls under the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. The village is between the Highway 6 highway to the west and the Green Line on the east.
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A major expansion began on 18 September 1999, when its boundaries expanded northwards and eastwards, with the Palestinian Shreiteh family allegedly losing roughly 150 more dunams. In 2008, the largest and most advanced goat pen and dairy was inaugurated at Susya with an investment of 3.5 million ILS. It can contain 1500 goats and milk 48 of them at a time.
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Tel Yokneam is located in the western Jezreel Valley. The region's abundant water, moderate climate, and fertile soils allow inhabitants to grow a variety of crops in the valley and herd cattle on the slopes of the Menashe Heights and Mount Carmel.Amnon Ben- Tor and Renate Rosenthal, Tel Yokneam rises to a height of . The mound spans approximately 10 acres, or 40 dunams.
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In 1964, some of the land was purchased by the Jerusalem municipality for a future tourist resort. In the Six-Day War, it came under Israeli occupation. From September 1976, Arabs were prohibited from building in the area. According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 780 dunams of land from the nearby Palestinian town of Al-Bireh in order to construct Psagot.
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These counts included the smaller localities Damun Farm, Shallala Farm and al-Jalama.Mills, 1932, p. 92 In the 1945 statistics the population of Isfiya consisted of 1,790; 180 Muslims, 300 Christians and 1,310 classified as "others", that is, Druze,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14 while the land area was 46,905 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Beit Aryeh-Ofarim () is an Israeli settlement and local council in the northern West Bank. It is located north of Jerusalem and east of Tel Aviv near the Palestinian village al-Lubban al-Gharbi, 3.8 km kilometers east of the Green line. It is situated inside the Israeli West Bank barrier on 8,500 dunams of land. In it had a population of .
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Ruins of Byzantine church, Canada Park Lake in Canada Park Canada Park covers an area of 7,000 dunams. It is filled with wooded areas, walking trails, water features and archaeological sites. Trees in the park include olive, carob, pomegranate, pine and almond. The area is also home to a range of wildlife from lizards and turtles to gray ravens and blue jays.
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The botanical garden was established in 1930 in order to adapt and acclimate trees and species to the Israeli climate. Plants were imported from all over the world. It now covers now 70 dunams (7 hectares). The dairy farm covers as genetics, computers, milking parlor and cooling, product quality control, feeding, herd health, udder health, artificial insemination and embryo transfer and implants.
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It lies at an altitude of 576 m above sea level and has a mean annual rainfall of 356 mm. Together with Al- Khas, Nuaman lies on 1,474 dunams of land, of which 1,294 are arable, though not particularly fertile, and 31 residential. Title to extensive parts of the Nuaman territory is held by families in Beit Sahour and Sur Baher.
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Bayt Jiz's economy was based on agriculture, with the main crops being grains, figs, vegetables, almonds, and olives. A part of the surrounding land was grassland, enabling the villagers to raise sheep and goats.Khalidi, 1992, p. 364 In the 1945 statistics the population was 550, all Muslims, while the total land area was 8,357 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Al-Masmiyya al-Kabira was one of the few localities in the district to be governed by a village council. The town had a gas station and a clinic. In the 1945 statistics, Al-Masmiyya al- Kabira had 2,520 inhabitants; 2,510 Muslims and 10 Christians, with a total of 20,687 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate for Palestine, the population was recorded as 311 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 21 increasing in the 1931 census to 447 Muslims, in 93 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 21 In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 540 Muslims, with 11,459 dunams of land.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Kunaizir had a population of 83; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing in the 1931 census to 200 Muslims, in a total of 47 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 79 In the 1945 statistics the population was 260 Muslims, with a total of 3,107 dunams of land.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 54 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 137 Jusayr 1945 1:250,000 Jusayr had an elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937, and by 1945, it had 74 students.
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Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 46 Of this, 191 dunums of village land were used for citrus and bananas, 419 for cereal farming, 2,671 irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 87 while 10 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Damun had a population of 19 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-District of Haifa, p. 33 while in the 1931 census, it was counted under Isfiya.Mills, 1932, p. 92 In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 340 Muslims, and the total land area was 2,797 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Barqusya had a population of 198 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10 increasing in the 1931 census 258 inhabitants, in 53 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 27 In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 330 Muslim inhabitants, and a land area of 3216 dunams.
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At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-'Ubaydiyya had a population of 336 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, p. 39 increasing in the 1931 census to 625 Muslims, in 137 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 85 In 1944/1945, the village had a population of 870 Muslims, with a total of 5,173 dunams of land.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120 while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170 The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al- Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.
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Taytaba (, also spelled Teitaba) was a Palestinian-Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict, located 5 kilometers north of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in May 1948 under Operation Hiram. In 1945 it had a population of 530 and a total area of 8,453 dunams, 99.8% of which was Arab-owned.Khalidi, 1992, p. 499.
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Village mosque, with minaret, in 2019 In 1949 and 1950, the Jewish villages of Arbel and Kfar Zeitim were founded on the lands of Hittin.Khalidi, 1992, p. 523 In the 1950s, the Druze community in Israel was given official custodianship over the Jethro shrine and 100 dunams of land around it. A request to build housing there for Druze soldiers was rejected.
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According to ARIJ, Almon is located on 783 dunams of land which Israel confiscated from the Palestinian town of 'Anata. 'Anata Town Profile ARIJ, 2012, p. 19 Anatot was established in 1982 by secular families with the help of the Amana organisation. It was named Anatot after the Kohanic city of Anathoth mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah 1:1.
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Defenders, including some Palmach members, fought off the attackers. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the kibbutz gained another 1,000 dunams. Despite the favourable economic situation of the kibbutz, tensions between members working in agriculture and those who worked in the city grew. The split in the HaKibbutz HaMeuhad movement was a further blow to the kibbutz, and departing residents left it weakened.
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Al-Jiyya was known for its cheese and dairy products, which were sold in Gaza and in Majdal.Hammad, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.114 al Jiyya 1931 1:20,000 al Jiyya 1945 1:20,000 In the 1945 statistics El Jiya had a population of 1,230, all Muslims, with a total of 8,506 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86 while 60 dunams were built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 136 During the British Mandate period, Bayt Tima had its own shops, the 14th-century mosque, and an elementary school built in 1946.
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Ness Ziona municipality During the war, Ness Ziona's population almost tripled to become 4,446 (according to an October 23, 1949 survey), and until 1950 the local council absorbed 9,000 olim, most of whom were housed in ma'abarot. In 1952 a new industrial zone was approved for the town on an area of 70 dunams. In 1955, a second industrial zone was approved.
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1 of 3 April 1949 Political considerations then prevented the expulsion of the villagers.Morris, 2004, p. 531 By 1962, land ownership had dropped to 6,620 dunams, mostly due to expropriation of land by the Israeli government in 1953–1954. In January 2017, the Israeli government demolished 11 buildings being built by 4 families, on the grounds that they were built without permits.
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Mills, 1932, p. 81 The villagers were working mostly in agriculture. In the 1945 statistics the village had 210 Muslim inhabitants and the total land area was 5,165 dunams. In 1944/45 a total of 25 dunums were used for citrus and bananas, 1,971 dunums were used for cereals, 37 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In 1954, 1,200 dunams of Nazareth's land, which had been slated for future urban expansion by the municipality, was expropriated by state authorities for the construction of government offices and, in 1957, for the construction of the Jewish town of Nazareth Illit. The latter was built as a way for the state to counterbalance the Arab majority in the region.Emmett 1995, p. 52.
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Yeruham (, , Yeroham) is a town (local council) in the Southern District of Israel, in the Negev desert. It covers 38,584 dunams (~38.6 km²), and had a population of in . It is named after the Biblical Jeroham. Until early 2011 the mayor of Yeruham was Amram Mitzna, and he was succeeded by Michael Biton of Kadima, who was elected mayor in November 2010.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kudna had an entirely Muslim population of 281,Barron, 1923, Table V, p. 10 increasing in the 1931 census to 353 inhabitants.Mills, 1932, p. 33 In the 1945 statistics the population of Kudna was 450, all Muslims, who owned 15,744 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.
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Jalud () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank. It is approximately south of Nablus and is situated just east of Qaryut, south of Qusra and northeast of Shilo, an Israeli settlement. Its land area consists of 16,517 dunams (square kilometers), 98 of which constitutes its built-up area.Land confiscated for settlement protection Qarut and Jalud Villages .
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After the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr 'Aqab has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 287, of whom 8 originated from the Israeli territory. Israel has confiscated 2,037 dunams of land from Kafr 'Aqab in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Kokhav Ya'acov.Kafr 'Aqab village profile, ARIJ, p.
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In 2006, a settler organization produced a contract of sale dating back to 1963 claiming it showed that the family another Palestinian had purchased the terrain from the Shamlawi, and that it was later resold to settlers, a sale document the Shamlawi dismiss as a forgery. the property to Israel’s Supreme Court held that Suleiman had sufficiently proved his ownership and could register the land with the Israeli authorities. In 2007, the Israeli Military's Committee for Initial Land Registration rejected the settler's claim that they could register it in their title as lacking credibility, but then confiscated 170 dunams of the Shamlawi land on which Barkan industrial plants had already been constructed. In 2014, in partial recognition of the Shamlawi claims, Israel ruled that 42 dunams of the Barkan industrial estate not yet built on could be registered in Suleiman Shalùmlawi's name.
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Ibdis was well known in the Gaza region for its quality grains, including wheat, barley, and sorghum. In the later period, fruit trees were grown, including grapes, apricots, and oranges.Khalidi, 1992, pp. 104-105. In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ‘Abdis had a population of 319, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub- district of Gaza, p. 9 increasing in the 1931 census to 425, still all Muslims, in 62 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 4. 'Ibdis 1930 1:20,000 'Ibdis 1930 1:20,000 (NW Faluja) In the 1945 statistics Ibdis had a population of 540, all Muslims, with a total of 4,593 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 149 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,307 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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To its south lies the village of Hureiz and the town of Yatta, to the north are Sa'ir and ash- Shuyukh, while Halhul and the forest of Hebron lie to the west. Bani Na'im's lands extend east to the mountains that overlook the Dead Sea. Bani Na'im's total land area is about 157,000 dunams, but the town's built-up areas amount to roughly 2,500 dunams. The town itself is mostly located in Area A (Palestinian security and civilian administration) and Area B (Palestinian civil administration and Israeli military control.) The nearby town of ar- Rawa'in to the east is located within Bani Na'im's municipal jurisdiction and is under Area A. However, the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Hever which was established in 1982, has a population of 400 and is also located within the Bani Na'im's municipal borders, comes under full Israeli control.
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The Hevel Yavne Regional Council was formed in 1950. It covers 32,000 dunams and six religious communities. Two yeshivas - Yeshivat Kerem BeYavne and Yeshivat Neve Herzog are under its purview. It is bordered to the north by Yavne and Gan Raveh Regional Council; to the east by Gederot and Brenner Regional Councils; to the south by Be'er Tuvia Regional Council, and to the west by Ashdod.
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1928 link= File:20-22-JisrElMajami-19XX.jpg 1942 link=File:20-22-JisrElMajami-1942.jpg 13 August 1939, at the end of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, a fortified "wall and tower" settlement was established, known as Kibbutz Gesher. In the 1945 statistics Jisr al Majami had 250 inhabitants; 230 Jews, 10 Muslims and 10 Christians, and the total land area was 458 dunams.
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The mound covers an area of 10.7 acres (or around 43 dunams) and has an elongated shape, 270 meters long, 160 meters wide at its base. Its western half is about 5 meters higher than the eastern half. The mound slopes steeply on all sides, except on the northeast, where the approach road to the site was probably located.Ben-Tor, Bonfíl and Zuckerman, 2003, p.
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Silat ad-Dhahr is situated in a deep ravine at the edge of a ridge with an average elevation of 370 meters above sea level. It is surrounded by the hills of the Musheirif Range. The old core of the village is situated on a spur and has an area of 28 dunams. The village is located 23 kilometers southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nazla ash Sharqiya had a population of 256 Muslims, in a total of 52 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 70 In the 1945 statistics the population of Nazla esh Sharqiya was 300 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21 with 4,840 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.
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Jannatah () is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank south of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate. Nearby villages include Hindaza in the north and Tuqu' to the south. It is situated above sea level. The total land area is 11,901 dunams of which 319 constitute built-up area and 277 have been confiscated by the Israeli government for settlements and a military base.
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The "Yamah" settlement was initially planned for 40 farms, each holding 300 dunams. What is now Yavne'el was established on October 7th, 1901, by the Jewish Colonization Association on lands bought from the Delaike (Al-Dalaika) Bedouin tribe by Baron Rothschild. The name "Yavne'el" was takenCarta's Official Guide to Israel and Complete Gazetteer to all Sites in the Holy Land. (3rd edition 1993) Jerusalem, Carta, p.
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Mills, 1932, p. 41 During the 1929 Palestine riots inhabitants of the village actively participated in the robberies and attacks on nearby Jewish communities. In the 1945 statistics the population of Lifta was 2,250; 2,230 Muslims and 20 Christians,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 and the total land area was 8,743 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Khirbet Jafa is located 1.5 kilometers east the northeast of the village.Zertal, 2004, p. 281 It has a total area of 15 dunams and is situated on a ridge descending north from Mount Hureish and towards Jaba's valley with an elevation of 410 meters above sea level. The ruins consist of the remains of a tower, walls, the foundations of buildings and water tanks.
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According to Haaretz, the tribe moved to escape a conflict with a neighboring tribe, but according to Adalah, the military governor of the Negev forced the tribe to move. In 1956, the tribe approached the military administration and was transferred to the Wadi Atir area where they received 7,000 dunams of land near the wadi. There, they settled in two villages Umm al-Hiran and Atir.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Arura had a population of 426 Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 16 increasing in the 1931 census to 566 Muslim, in 131 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 47. The 1945 statistics found 660 Muslim inhabitants,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 with a total land area of 10,978 dunams.
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According to ARIJ, in 1979 Israel confiscated 5,048 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of An-Nuway'imah in order to construct Na'omi.An Nuwei'ma & 'Ein ad Duyuk al Foqa Town Profile, ARIJ, p. 18 Na'omi was established in 1982, and was initially named Na'ama due to its proximity to the Palestinian village of an- Nuway'imah, before being renamed after the biblical figure of Naomi.
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Abu Snan (, ) is a local council in the Galilee region of northern Israel, with an area of 4,750 dunams (4.75 km²). It achieved recognition as an independent local council in 1964. It is a religiously mixed town, with a Muslim majority and sizable Druze and Christian minorities.אבו סנאן 2014 According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in Abu Snan had a total population of .
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"German is murdered in Tel Aviv outskirts," pg 5, The New York Times, March 23, 1946. In November 1947, the British high commissioner declared Templer land in Palestine "enemy property." A few months later, the Tel Aviv municipality purchased 4,236 dunams of land in Sarona from the British custodian. Three weeks before Israel's declaration of independence, the British evacuated the remaining Templers to Germany and Australia.
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Raphael Patai, Herzl Press/McGraw Hill, New York, Vol. 2, p.818 Tel Or was built near the power plant to house the permanent employees and their families. Tel Or was settled in 1930 and was the only Jewish village in Transjordan at the time. Residents also farmed thousands of dunams of land and sold some of the produce at a company workers’ supermarket in Haifa.
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20 An elementary school for boys was founded in 1920 and in 1945, it had an enrollment of 168 students. Innaba also had a mosque, which was dedicated to al-Shaykh 'Abd Allah and had a shrine for him. In the 1945 statistics it had population of 1,420 Muslims, while the total land area was 12,857 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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The Ain esh Sherkiyeh, meaning "The eastern spring", also lay close by.Palmer, 1881, p.282 In the 1945 statistics, Al-Qabu had a population of 260, all Muslims, with a total of 3,806 dunams of land. In 1944-45 the villagers had allocated a total of 1,233 dunums of village land to the cultivation of cereals; 436 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities Malalha had 37 Muslim inhabitants.Mills, 1932, p. 17 In the 1945 statistics the population numbered 360 Muslims, who had a total of 3,342 dunams of land. Of this, 949 dunums were planted with citrus and bananas, 27 dunums were plantations and irrigable land, 1,796 were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Kafra had a population of 273; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 298; all Muslims except 1 Christian, in a total of 81 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 79 In the 1945 statistics, the population was 430 Muslims, with a total of 9,172 dunams of land.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Tall al-Shawk had a population of 58 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 decreasing in the 1931 census to a population of 41 Muslims in 11 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 81 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 120 Muslims, while the total land area was 3,685 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the tribal area of Al Awadein had a population of 402 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 35 increasing in the 1931 census to 451, in 87 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 94 In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 640 Muslims, and the total area was 13,572 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Rehaniyeh had a population of 266 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 34 increasing in the 1931 census to 293 Muslim, in a total of 55 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 95 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 240 Muslims, and the village's lands spanned 1,930 dunams.
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41 increasing in the 1931 census, to 94 Muslims, in 18 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 110 By the 1945 statistics the population was 70 Muslims, with a total of 1,798 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 421 dunums were used for cereals; 144 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 645 dunams of land from the Palestinian town of Ni'lin in order to construct Matityahu.Ni’lin Town (Fact Sheet), ARIJ, p. 17 As of 2017, Matityahu consists of about 120 families and is expanding with the construction of dozens of new single-family homes. Of the current resident families, about half speak English at home (the others are primarily Hebrew-speaking).
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Archaeologists believe the villagers grew grain, as indicated by the sickle blades and the grinding and pounding tools, and raised animals that supplied milk, meat and wool, as attested to by the spindle whorls. The settlement was small in scope, approximately 1.5 dunams, but there is evidence of bartering, based on the presence of basalt vessels and other lithic objects brought to the site from afar.
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Ma'ale Adumim yeshiva One of the purposes of establishing Ma'ale Adumim was to supply affordable housing for young couples who could not afford the high cost of homes in Jerusalem. Although the municipal boundaries cover 48,000 dunams, the city has been suffering from an acute housing shortage since 2009 due to the freeze on new construction. most of the real estate market was in second-hand properties.
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The villagers worked in agriculture and animal husbandry; they also catered to the visitors during the mawsim. They cultivated mainly grain, followed by citrus and other fruits, such as figs and grapes. In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,420, all Muslims,Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30 while the total land area was 31,002 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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The village center also contained some small shops. There were a number of wells, ranging in depth from 30 to 80 meters, which supplied drinking and irrigation water. Beit Jirja 1931 1:20,000 Beit Jirja 1945 1:20,000 In the 1945 statistics the population of Beit Jirja consisted of 940 Muslims with a land area of 8,015 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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1-3 The mound is 23 metres high and dominates its surrounding plains, which are excellent for agriculture. It spans an area of 12 acres or 43 dunams. Tell Jemmeh is located about 10 kilometers from Tell el-Farah (South) and Tell el-Ajjul, which allows for them to communicate by signal fires. This orientation of the sites suggests it was a border zone.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 499 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Al-Auja in order to construct Yitav.Al 'Auja Town Profile p. 19, ARIJ Niran was established as a Nahal settlement in 1970, Yitav was recognised by the state in 1977, and began operating as a kibbutz. It was named a memorial () to Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the leaders of the Israeli kibbutz movement.
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Wadi Fukin has a total land area of 434.7 hectares (4,347 dunams), 20.1 hectares of which are built-up. Much of the remaining land is planted with orchards and vineyards. Israel allotted 5.1 hectares to Israeli settlements near the town and an additional 88.5 hectares were confiscated in 2005. The Israeli West Bank barrier separates 103.9 hectares from the majority of the town's area.
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Tent of Nations is an educational and environmental farm covering 400 dunams next to the village of Nahalin, on a hill top southwest of Bethlehem. The farm has been in Daoud Nassar's family since 1916 when his grandfather purchased the land known as Dahers’ Vineyard. The farm is now surrounded by the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. The Nassars are a Lutheran Christian Palestinian family.
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During the war, neighbouring Kurds illegally seized 60 dunams of agricultural land, and Hezany was razed by government irregulars in 1964 and 1969. The population subsequently decreased in lower Hezany to 145, and to 20 people in upper Hezany, for a total of 165 people by 1977. The village was destroyed by the Iraqi government in 1987 during the Al-Anfal campaign, displacing the remaining 110 families.
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Al-Judeida is situated at the southern edge of the Marj Sanur valley on a small hilltop with an elevation of about 425 meters above sea level. The old core of al-Judeida is in the center of the village and is relatively small with an area of 14 dunams. It has narrow alleys that meet at a square in the old core's center.Zertal, 2004, p.
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Tel Zeton (, also known as Tell Abu Zeitun, is an archaeological site in the Pardes Katz neighborhood of Bnei Brak, Israel. It lies south of the Yarkon River. The mound rises to a height of above its surroundings and spans an area of 2–3 dunams (1 acre). The site was inhabited in the Middle Bronze Age and later in the Iron and Persian periods.
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Along the northern rim of the valley ran a secondary road linking Deir Yassin to the suburbs and to the main Jaffa Road which was about to the north. The total land area of the village consisted of 2,857 dunams (286 hectares), of which 94.5% was Arab-owned, 5.3% was Jewish-owned and the remainder was public property.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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Zertal, 2007, p. 122 Nearby localities include Kufeir to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast and Raba to the southeast. The principal water source is Ein Ginai, 6 kilometers to the west and there are 35 cisterns in the village. In 1980 Telfit's built-up area consisted of 15 dunams.
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This blow proved disastrous for the negotiations. The Russian societies formed for the purposes of purchasing land were dissolved, failed to send in the money they had promised, and the entire magnificent project fell through...It was only in 1910 that Hankin -- who, in the meanwhile, had purchased land in Lower Galilee for the ICA -- resumed his negotiations for land in the Emek. Because of the reluctance of Zionist organizations to pay for land, Hankin frequently agreed to purchase lands and then convinced the Jewish agency or others to finance the "done deal." As Ruppin notes: :Authorized by a Russian Jew, Elias Blumenfeld, to arrange for the purchase of 1,000 dunams [1 km²] on which he, Blumenfeld, intended to establish a farm with his own means, Hankin concluded an agreement for a stretch of 9,500 dunams [9.5 km²] in Fule, later Merchavia [Al-Ful in Arabic].
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Janiya has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 7.9% of village land was classified as Area B, the remaining 92.1% as Area C. 867 dunams of land was confiscated for the Israeli settlement of Dolev, in addition to 1,667 dunams for the settlement of Talmon. Al Janiya Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-16 In 1989, 4,000 acres of privately owned land in Al- Janiya was confiscated and given to the Israeli settlement of Talmon.A walk in the hills, by Raja Shehadeh, December 1, 2008 By 2010, Al-Janiya had lost 10,000 acres due to Israeli confiscations.Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, HRW, 2010Seven days, five years: A week visiting my family in Israel, David Meir Grossman, July 28, 2014, Tablet By 2012, Israeli settlers regularly came armed, taking control of a local water source.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, the two Ijlil villages (spelled Jelil) had a population of 154 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20 increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 305, still all Muslim.Mills, 1932, p. 13 Ijlil al-Qibliyya 1942 1:20,000 (bottom left) Ijlil al-Qiblilya 1945 1:250,000 In 1943, a kibbutz named Glil Yam was established on land purchased from the village by the Jewish National Fund. In the 1945 statistics the population of Ijlil al-Qibliyya was 470 Muslims and 210 Jews, with 8,692 dunams of land owned by Muslims and 5,980 by Jews, according to an official land and population survey. Of the Muslim owned land, 923 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 85 for plantations and irrigable land, 7,087 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In 1920, a road was constructed to connect the town with Netanya on the coast. In order to cope with a significant increase in population and unorganized infrastructural development since the beginning of the 20th century, a civil planning scheme was designed for Tulkarm and its satellite villages of Dhinnaba, Shuweikah and Irtah in 1945. At the time Tulkarm was divided into four main sections, with the bulk of commercial activity concentrated along the north-south and east- west roads. Meanwhile, urban sprawl continued to expand past the northern fringes of the town, which had previously been characterized by green spaces.Thawaba, 2009, p. 36. In the 1945 statistics the population of Tulkarm consisted of 8,090; of whom 7,790 were Muslims, 280 Christian and 20 "other", with a land area of 1,672 dunams (urban) and 32,610 dunams (rural), according to an official land and population survey.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Madama has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 62 % of Madama land was defined as Area B, while the remaining 32% was defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 139 dunams of land from Madama in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.Madama Village Profile, p. 16 In May, 2017, Israeli settlers, apparently from Yitzhar, attacked a Palestinian shepherd from Madama.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mukhmas had a population of 361,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 14 increasing in the 1931 census to 404 inhabitants, in 80 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 41 In the 1945 statistics, Mukhmas had a population of 540 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 and a land area of 13,479 dunams.
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During the Early Bronze III (2800-2500 BCE) the settlement expanded, with a fortified area extending over 30 dunams. This was subsequently abandoned until, in the Middle Bronze I-II periods (2000-1600) it was reoccupied and rebuilt, and girded by cyclopean walls built with stones measuring 3 by 5 metres.Jericke, p. 21 A cuneiform economic text, with 4 personal names and a list of animals,Jericke, 21-22.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qaryut has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 23% of village land is classified as Area B, the remaining 77% is Area C. Qaryut Village profile (including Jalud Locality), ARIJ, p. 16 As of 2014, Israel has confiscated 2,221 dunams of Qaryat village land for 3 Israeli settlements: Eli, Shilo and Mizpe Rahel. Qaryut Village profile (including Jalud Locality), ARIJ, p.
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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Kahil has been under Israeli occupation. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Kahil had a population of approximately 6,526 inhabitants in 2007.2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118. The population is made up of several clans, including al-Attawna, al-Assafra, al-Zuhoor, al-Judi, Barham and al-Khateeb. The town's total land area is 5,795 dunams.
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In 1925, an American Jew named Isaac Segal Feller purchased a plot of 600 dunams on a hill above the springs. This land was called "Nachalat Yitzchak" or "Kiryat YaSaF" after its founder. During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt and Israeli War of Independence, it served as a base for Hagana training and military operations. Since 1994, there have been disputes over development of the site for residential or tourism purposes.
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According to ARIJ, in 1980 Israel confiscated 1,294 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Al- Jiftlik in order to construct Yafit.Al Jiftlik Village Profile p. 17, ARIJ Yafit was built in the 1980s on a plot of rocky land in the Jordan Valley by Israelis attracted by the beauty of the desert.Israelis drawn by beauty flee Jordan valley violence It was named after Yossi Yafa, an IDF commander.
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The nearby Timsah Springs, which originates from the Taninim Stream, is one of the local sources of brackish water for the kibbutz' numerous fishponds, which total 1,600 dunams (1.6 km²) in surface area. The Nahal Taninim nature reserve lies south of the kibbutz and is the site of an ancient Roman dam and aqueduct, which have been restored by the Department of Antiquities, the Drainage Authorities, and Nature and Parks Authorities.
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According to the 1931 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Khan el Ahmar (Jericho sub district) had a population of 27; 25 Muslims and 2 Christians, in a total of 3 houses.Mills, 1932, p.45 In the 1945 statistics Khan el Ahmar had 16,380 dunams of land, but zero population, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarah had a population of 234 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 14 increasing in the 1931 census to 329 Muslims, in 63 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 41 In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 420 Muslims, while the total land area was 4,158 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 410 Muslims, while the total land area was 3,401 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 742 dunums of village land was used for citrus and bananas, 510 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, 1,468 dunums were for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Burj had a population of 344; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22 increasing in the 1931 census to 370, still all Muslims, in a total of 92 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 19. In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 480 Muslims, with a total land area of 4,708 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Murassas had a population of 319 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing in the 1931 census to 381; 375 Muslims and 6 Christians, in a total of 89 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 79 The village had a population of 460 in the 1945 statistics; 450 Muslims and 10 Christians, while the total land area was 14,477 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Umm 'Ajra had a population of 86 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 31 increasing in the 1931 census to 242, still all Muslims, in 48 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 81 In the 1945 statistics the population of Umm 'Ajra was 260 Muslims, while the total land area was 6,443 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yaquq wa Mawasi had a population of 294; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39 decreasing in the 1931 census to 153; still all Muslims, in a total of 28 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 85 In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 210 Muslims, and the total land area was 8,507 dunams.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Khan ed-Duwair was 137, all Muslims, in a total of 29 houses. In the 1945 statistics no Arabs were listed as inhabitants, while the nearby Dan had a population of 260,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 09 and Arabs still owned 2,163 dunams of the land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine Shuneh had a population of 83; all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41 increasing in the 1931 census to 337, still all Muslims, in a total of 65 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics the population was 170 Muslims, with a total of 3,660 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42 decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 109 In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims, with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm Kalka had a population of 1 Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramle, p. 21 increasing sharply in the 1931 census 24 Muslims, in 6 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 24 In the 1945 statistics the population was 60, all Muslims, while the total land area was 1,405 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated 1,139 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Jaba' in order to construct Geva Binyamin. Jaba' Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 17 Some Jaba' residents have reportedly managed to return to part of their land fenced off by the settlers of Geva Binyamin.Michael Sfard,The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights, Henry Holt and Company 2018 p.
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The 1922 census of Palestine listed under "Ja'atun" a population of 19 Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. 36 In the 1945 statistics the population of Ga'aton was 140, all Jews;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 the area was counted together with that of Shavei Tzion, Mazra'a and Ein Sara, and totalled 7,407 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.
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Therefore a Bible verse from the Psalms (Tehillim) was inscribed in the city's logo: "Those who sow in tears, will reap with songs of joy." (Ps 126:5) Hashomer guards kept watch over the fields to prevent incursions by the neighboring Bedouin. By the early twentieth century, Hadera had become the regional economic center. In 1913, the settlement included forty households, as well as fields and vineyards, stretching over 30,000 dunams.
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Protests at this action reached the Supreme Court of Israel, which in 1955 accepted (HCJ 30/55) the government's word that the sole purpose of the land was to erect government facilities. However, it had already been decided that only 109 dunams would be used for that purpose and planning for residential neighborhoods continued. The first dwellings were completed in September 1956 and the first residents moved in later that year.
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The latter owned about 50,000 dunams toward the end of the century, including eight villages around Safed.Abū Mannah, Weismann and Zachs 2005, p. 178. Muslim quarter of Safed circa 1908 In 1878 the municipal council of Safed was established. In 1888 the Acre Sanjak, including the Safed Kaza, became part of the new province of Beirut Vilayet, an administrative state of affairs which persisted until the Empire's fall in 1918.
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According to ARIJ, in 1977 Israel confiscated 524 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to construct Almog.An Nabi Musa Locality Profile, ARIJ, p. 7 Initially established as a Nahal settlement in 1977, Almog became a kibbutz in 1979. It was named after Yehuda Kopolevitz Almog, a Third Aliyah pioneer who founded the potash mining industry which developed into the Dead Sea Works in Sodom.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Islin had a population 132, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 15 increasing in the 1931 census to 186; in a total of 40 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 40 In the 1945 statistics the population was 260, all Muslims, while the total land area was 2,159 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Yeshurun Central Synagogue, built in 1912 Gedera is built on seven hills in the Southern Coastal Plain which rise to the height of above sea level. The town has an area of 14,500 dunams (). Gedera is considered to be the southern edge of central Israel while Hadera is considered the northern edge, hence the Israeli expression "from Hadera to Gedera" to describe the most populated area in Israel.
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Yoav Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Yoav) is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It is located near the cities of Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malakhi and Ashkelon. It was founded in 1952, covering an area of 230,000 dunams (230 km2), with a population of about 5,300. The council is named after Yitzhak Dubnov, who was nicknamed "Yoav", and who fell while defending Negba in the 1947–1949 Palestine war.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sara'a had a population 205, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 15 increasing in the 1931 census to 271, still all Muslims, in 65 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 43 In the 1945 statistics the population of Saris was 340, all Muslims, who owned 4,967 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Amuqa had a population of 114, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41 decreasing slightly in the 1931 census to 108, still all Muslims, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 105 By the 1944/45 statistics, the village had a population of 140 Muslims with a total land area of 2,574 dunams.
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Al-Mujaydil ( (also: al-MujeidilMorris, 2004) was an Arab-Palestinian village located 6 km southwest of Nazareth. Al-Mujaydil was one of a few towns that achieved local council status by the Mandatory Palestine government. In 1945, the village had a population of 1,900 and total land area of 18,836 dunams – mostly Arab-owned. The population was partly Christian and the town contained a Roman Catholic church and monastery.
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Street sign During the Six-Day War in 1967, Tuqu' came under Israeli occupation, remaining so until this day. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 1,362. Over the years, Israel has confiscated 1436 dunams of Tuqu's land for the construction of three Israeli settlements: Tekoa, Mitzpe Shalem, and a resort, Metzoke Dragot. In addition, the settlers have constructed various outposts. Tuqu’ Town Profile, ARIJ, pp.
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Wadi al-Far'a () is a Palestinian village in the Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank located five kilometers southwest of Tubas. It has a land area of 12,000 dunams, of which 337 is built-up and 10,500 are for agricultural purposes. It is under the complete control of the Palestinian National Authority and is adjacent to the Far'a refugee camp.Wadi al-Far'a Village Profile Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem.
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The Adullam Grove Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority. It was established in 1994. The Adullam Caves park is a JNF park of 50,000 dunams () of mostly pine forests, which were planted by Jewish immigrants who settled in the Lachish region in the early years of the state. The park was prepared for public use by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Jewish National Fund.
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An extensive archaeological survey was conducted at the site in June 2009. It was found that the site is approximately 100 dunams, with settlements in the Early Bronze Age II/III, Middle Bronze Age II, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age I and Iron Age II. The largest settlement at the site seems to date to the Iron Age II, when the summit was enclosed by fortifications, still visible on the surface today.
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Atlit () is a coastal town located south of Haifa, Israel. The community is in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council in the Haifa District of Israel. An adjacent Jewish village was reestablished in 1903 under the auspices of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, which merged with the remnants of the medieval knights templar village. In the past, from 1950 until the unification of the municipalities in 2003, Atlit was a local council whose jurisdiction was 14,000 dunams.
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In the 1945 statistics the population was counted under the name Arab et Ta'amira together with Arab Ibn Ubeid, Arab et Rashayida and Arab et Sawahira; together they had a population of 7,070 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25 with Arab et Ta'amira having a total of 209,888 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Rujib had a population of 250 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24 increasing in the 1931 census to 277 Muslims, in 58 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 64 In the 1945 statistics, Rujeib had a population of 390 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19 while the total land area was 7,038 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Al-Lubban al-Gharbi () is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 21 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,476 inhabitants in 2007.2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 112 Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has a total land area of 9,694 dunams, of which 335 are built-up area.
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The House of Jacob Our Father is first mentioned by Aquilante Rocchetta, the Italian traveller who visited the region in 1599. He describes the ruins to the east of Jubb Yussef and quotes the locals who called it by this name. This is an area of about 10 dunams (about one hectare), clear of rocks, with Jubb Yussef located at its western side. Today only the foundations of the buildings are visible.
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Some went to the Chicago area, and were involved in the startup of the Bridgeview Mosque.Hard-liners won battle for Bridgeview mosque, February 8, 2004 Chicago Tribune Forget Poles: Palestinians find a home in suburban Chicago , February 7, 2013, webz.org In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,490, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 while the total land area was 23,366 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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Beitunia's land area consists of 2, 617.4 hectares (26,174 dunams) of which 336.2 hectares is built-up area. The Israeli West Bank barrier separates the urban area from 66% of the town's lands, however, most of the cut-off territory (Seam Zone) is made-up of forest and open spaces making it prime agricultural and grazing land.Betunia: A Palestinian Community Victimized by the Israeli Colonization Activities Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2007-11-11.
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According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two nearby Palestinian villages in order to construct Oranit: most of the land was taken from Azzun Atma,‘Azzun ‘Atma Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 16 while 6 dunams from ‘Izbat Salman.The Western ‘Izab Locality Profile (including ‘Izbat Jal’ud, ‘Izbat Salman, ‘Izbat al Mudawwar & ‘Izbat al Ashqar), ARIJ, p. 20 In April 1983, the Israeli government approved the establishment of Oranit, one of three settlements planned for "western Samaria".
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Kharbatha al-Misbah () is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, located west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,211 in 2007.2007 PCBS Census . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113. It has a total land area of 4,431 dunams, of which 644 are built-up areas and the remainder agricultural lands and forests.
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Ibrahim Makhūs was born to a religious and rural Alawite family from the village of Makhūs—the family's namesake—between Latakia and Antioch.Batatu, p. 163. His father was a religious shaykh who also worked as a landless cultivator, although he eventually came to own 100 dunams of agricultural land. He served as the arbiter of local disputes and founded a large charitable organization in the Syrian coastal region called "al-Jam'iyyah al-Khayriyyah".
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In 1958, the Jerusalem Municipality, headed by Mordechai Ish Shalom, held a design competition for a municipal theatre on a plot of 11 dunams (2.8 acres), on the southern edge of the Talbiya neighborhood. Architects Michael Nadler, Shulamit Nadler and Shmuel Bixson won first prize. The municipality also received a large donation from the Jewish millionaire Miles Sherover, who made his fortune in Venezuela. The cornerstone laying took place in October 1964.
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Gilgal () is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the West Bank.We're Building Time Magazine Located in the Jordan Valley around 16 kilometres north of Jericho with an area of 1,400 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.Settlements Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council In it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.
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Mehola () is a religious moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley near the Green Line and the Palestinian village of Bardala,Isabel Kershner,Strategic Corridor in West Bank Remains a Stumbling Block in Mideast Talks,', New York Times, 4 January 2014. it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council.מחולה Bikat HaYarden Regional Council With an area of 5,000 dunams, in it had a population of .
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Buq'ata (; ) is a Druze town in the northern section of the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. Buq'ata covers an area of 7,000 dunams (7 km²) between two mountains in the Golan Heights, Mount Hermonit and Mount Varda. Located 1,070 metres above sea level, it had a population of in . Since the adoption of the 1981 Golan Heights Law, Buq'ata is under Israeli civil law, and incorporated into the Israeli system of local councils.
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Distribution of food in the camp in 1950 Jalazone was established in 1949 on 253 dunams of land, as a result of the Palestinian exodus following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Like all official West Bank refugee camps, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had leased the land from Jordan. Most of the plots were state owned before the lease, while the remainder belonged to landowners from various nearby towns.Jalazone Refugee Camp Profile .
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Palestine: Acre Justice, Dec. 06, 1937, Time magazine Agriculture was the backbone of the village economy, which was based on grain, fruit, legume, and olive cultivation. In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Mazar was 270 Muslims, with a total of 14,501 dunams of land. Of this, 5,221 dunums were used for cereals, 229 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 68 dunums were for olives,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zawieh had a population 45 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29 increasing in the 1931 census to 76 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 72 In 1945 statistics the population was 120 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17 with 1,066 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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The chick hatchery produces about 4.5 million day-old chicks per year. There is a dairy herd with about 300 cows and 200 calves, which produces over 3.2 million liters of milk per year. MADAN is the Aquaculture Fish farming branch of kibbutz Ma’agan Michael agriculture enterprises. The aquaculture branches include about 1600 dunams of fishponds, where edible fish such as carp, gray mullet, St. Peter's fish and silver carp are raised.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jilia had a population of 269, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21 increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 271 Muslims, in 63 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 20 In the 1945 statistics, the population had increased to 330 Muslims, while the total land area was 10,347 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet al-Ley had a population of 234 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 14 increasing in the 1931 census to 315 Muslims, in 67 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 41 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 450 Muslims, while the total land area was 4,502 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.
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According to the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bayt 'Affa had a population of 422 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 9 which had increased in the 1931 census to 462, still all Muslim.Mills, 1932, p. 2 Bayt 'Affa 1930 1:20,000 In the 1945 statistics, there were 700 Muslims, with 5,808 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the British Mandate of Palestine period, in the 1922 census of Palestine Jaba had a population of 523; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 33 increasing in the 1931 census to 762; 2 Christians and the rest Muslim, in a total of 158 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 92 In the 1945 statistics this had increased to 1,140, all Muslims with a total of 7,012 dunams of land.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Samra was 157 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39 increasing in the 1931 census to 237; 232 Muslims and 5 Baháʼís, in a total of 50 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 84 In the 1945 statistics, Es Samra had a population of 290; 280 Muslims and 10 classified as others, with 6,912 dunams of Arab-owned land.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine the population of the village was 199 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29 decreasing slightly in the 1931 census to 185, in 35 households.Mills, 1932, p. 70 In the 1944/5 statistics, the population was 290, all Muslim,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 with a total of 8,915 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta had a population of 212 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41 increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 256 Muslims, in a total of 53 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 106 In the 1945 statistics, al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta had a population of 350, all Muslims, and a land area of 6,773 dunams.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zangharia had a population of 374 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42 increasing in the 1931 census to 526 Muslims, in a total of 97 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics, the village had a total population of 840 Muslims with a total of 27,918 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Almaniyeh had a population of 122 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42 increasing in the 1931 census, when it was counted together with Zubeid, to 432; 5 Christians and 427 Muslims, in a total of 100 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 111 In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 260 Muslims with 1,169 dunams of land.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Wazia had a population of 30, all Muslim.Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42 In the 1945 statistics the population was 100 Muslims, with a total of 6,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 795 dunums for plantations or irrigable land, 1,623 for cereals;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Manara had a population of 122; 121 Muslims and 1 Jew,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 40 increasing in the 1931 census to 214 Muslims, in 33 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 83 In the 1944/1945 statistics it had total population of 490 Muslims, and together with the people of Nasir ad-Din they had 4,185 dunams of land.
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In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 609, all Muslims, in a total of 31 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 105 In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-'Abisiyya (including nearby Azaziyat, Ein Fit and Khirbat es Summan) was 1,220 Muslims, with a total of 15,429 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.
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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Abu Iskhajdam was 139 Muslims,Barron, 1922, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramalllah, p. 16 increasing in the 1931 census to 201 Muslims, in 47 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 47 In 1945 statistics Abu Shukheidim had a population of 250 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26 and a total land area of 1,430 dunams.
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Its members were later temporarily housed in kibbutz Shefayim, and ultimately split into two groups which in 1949 founded the kibbutzim of Gesher HaZiv and Kabri in the Western Galilee. According to ARIJ, in 1980 Israel confiscated 506 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to construct Beit HaArava.An Nabi Musa Locality Profile, ARIJ, p. 7 In 1980, Beit HaArava was re-established as a Nahal outpost.
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Efal 1940 Ef'al was originally planned to be an urban kibbutz, but due to high land prices, it was established on 250 dunams of land purchased by the Jewish National Fund near Kfar Azar. It was the site of one of the first battles of the 1948 Arab- Israeli War. The first residents arrived in May 1947. On 4 December 1947, the kibbutz was attacked by 120 to 150 attackers from the village of Salame.
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It is located on 3,800 dunams (1 dunum = 1,000 square meters) of land at Khalidiyah in the Mafraq Governorate, 50 km from Amman and 24 km from Zarqa, on the cross roads linking Jordan to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Syria, which facilitates the transportation of KADDB IP products to all countries in the region.:: KADDB Industrial Park ::. Kaddb-ipark.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-31. A Lebanese variant of the KADDB produced 4x4 Nimr.
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Tarrama (, also known as Khirbet al-Tarramah) is a Palestinian village situated on a hilltop with an elevation of in the southern West Bank, part of the Hebron Governorate. Located just south of Dura, nearby localities include at-Tabaqa to the north, Fawwar to the east, Khursa to the west, and Deir Razih to the south. Its total land area is 210 dunams and the village is provided with electricity and telephone lines.
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In around 1872 the land was purchased by three families and was split into two sections: the first was owned by the Sursock and Tueni families of Beirut, and the second was owned by the Khouri family of Haifa. Both sections were the same size and together measured 17,500 dunams in total. An Arab sharecropper village existed on the land called Qira. It was located near the spring of the Shofet river.
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It will house 36 private boxes, a VIP section and the press areas. This will be followed by construction of the remaining stands, along with training grounds. Spread out over 163 dunams (16.3 hectares), the entire complex will be connected by train and have a parking lot for around 1,000 cars. The architects of the stadium are GAB (Goldschmidt Arditty Ben Nayin) Architects, one of Israel's leading sport architecture firms based in Jerusalem.
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In , it had a population of . The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. The settlement has several outposts and covers a total area of approximately 7,000 dunams of land. Itamar's residents have been the target of several lethal attacks by Palestinian militants, most notably the 2011 massacre of the Fogel family by residents of the nearby village of Awarta.
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After Israel's establishment in 1948, and the total depopulation of Hittin which had been a predominantly Muslim village, the Druze were granted full custodianship over the tomb, and an additional 100 dunams surrounding it. Under the leadership of Sheikh Amin Tarif, the shrine was then renovated and numerous rooms were added for the hosting of pilgrims. The Israeli government also paved the road leading to Nabi Shuʿayb and provided electricity and water infrastructure services there.
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