Kafr Yasif
Kafr Yasif
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Local council (from 1925) | |
Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Kpar Yasip |
• Also spelled | Kafar Yasif (official) Kfar Yasif (unofficial) |
Coordinates: 32°57′17″N 35°9′55″E / 32.95472°N 35.16528°E | |
Grid position | 165/262 PAL |
Country | Israel |
District | Northern |
Government | |
• Head of Municipality | Shadi Shweiry |
Area | |
• Total | 3,194 dunams (3.194 km2 or 1.233 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 10,394 |
• Density | 3,300/km2 (8,400/sq mi) |
Name meaning | "Village of Yasif"[2] |
Kafr Yasif (
History
Antiquity and into Early Muslim period
Many ancient remains have been excavated at Kafr Yasif, including mosaic floors, Corinthian columns, and cisterns cut in rock.[4]
Remains dating to the
Remains dating to the
Crusader and Mamluk periods
During the
At one point it was a casale of the
Remains dating to the Crusader[5][11][18] and Mamluk[5][7][11] periods have been found here.
Ottoman period
During
In the 1740s, ten Jewish households under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Soloman Abadi settled in Kafr Yasif and were joined by a number of other Jews, leaving
In 1838, Kafr Yasif was classified as having a
British Mandate
In the
In April 1938, during the Arab revolt in Palestine, a group of Palestinian Arab rebels planted a mine on the road near Kafr Yasif which blew up a British vehicle, killing nine soldiers (according to the Arabs) or one soldier and wounding two others (according to the British). The British Army proceeded to start setting Kafr Yasif ablaze in retaliation, but were then informed by local residents that Kuwaykat's inhabitants were responsible for the attack. The British troops fatally shot nine Arabs as they approached the village.[34] Between 14–17 February 1939, the British Army set between 68 and 72 homes ablaze in Kafr Yasif in response to another mine attack on British soldiers driving on a newly constructed security road which resulted in the death of one soldier and the wounding of two others.[34] It was later discovered by the British authorities that the attackers were not from Kafr Yasif. In compensation, the town was rebuilt by the British with a school and a city hall which are still in use today.[3][35] According to a British chaplain, "The people at Kafr Yasif were very eager to point out that the troops who destroyed their houses were not English but Irish."[35]
In the 1945 statistics, an official land and population survey, Kafr Yasif had a population of 1,400:[36] 350 were Muslim, 1,105 Christians, and 40 were listed as "other" (Druze).[37][38] The village owned 6,763 dunams of land,[36] of which 3,234 were plantations and irrigable land, on 3,310 they grew cereals,[39] while 75 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[40]
Israeli period
On 8–14 July 1948, during the
Kafr Yasif is one of the few Arab towns in the Galilee that retained most of the land it held before 1948.
The first meeting of the Congress of Druze Intellectuals took place in Kafr Yasif on 26 August 1966. The initiative behind the formation of the congress came from the youth of Druze villages in the Galilee, led by Salman Faraj. When the Druze leadership in the Department of Minority Affairs gained knowledge of the congress's planned meeting and failed to persuade Faraj to postpone it, the spiritual head of the Druze community, Sheikh
Kafr Yasif became the site of the first major violent incident between Christians and Druze in Israel on 11 April 1981. The clash began during a football match between fans of the town's local team and that of the nearby Druze village of
Demographics
Kafr Yasif's population was 1,730 in 1950, of which 300 were
In the 2009 census Kafr Yasif had a population of 8,700,[58] with Christians accounting for 56% of the inhabitants, Muslims 40% and Druze 4%.[59]
The largest family in Kafr Yasif is the Safiah.[60]
Landmarks
It is popular belief that the tomb of the monotheistic saint,
Culture and education
According to the historian Atallah Mansour, Kafr Yasif is the "most academic Arab town in Israel",[62] while journalist Sylvia Smith calls it "the preeminent [Arab] cultural town".[60] With the near total depopulation of the Palestinian Arabs in the major cities of Haifa and Jaffa as a result of the 1948 war, Kafr Yasif became one of a few villages in the newly-established state of Israel to emerge as a central space for Arab culture and politics.[63] Its schools, proximity and location between major cities and other Arab villages, the relatively equal distribution of land ownership among its households and the diversity brought about by the influx of internally displaced Palestinians all contributed to its local importance.[63] In 1948 it was the only Arab locality in the Galilee to contain a high school outside of the cities of Nazareth, Shefa-Amr and Haifa.[63] Following the war, the high school enrolled students from over fifty Arab villages.[63] Several students, including Mahmoud Darwish, became well-known poets, and the village hosted weekly poetry recitals.[63]
The Rabeah Murkus Dance Studio, Israel's first Arab dance studio, is located in Kafr Yasif. Rabeah Murkus, daughter of former Kafr Yasif mayor Nimr Murkus, also opened a dance study track for Arab high school students authorized by the
Notable people
See also
References
- ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 44
- ^ a b Kafr Yasif (Israel) Municipality Flags and Descriptions.
- ^ Dauphin, 1988, pp. 638–39
- ^ a b c d e f g Zedan, 2017, Kafr Yasif
- ^ Streger, 2020, Kafr Yasif (B)
- ^ a b c Abu Raya, 2010, Kafr Yasif (B)
- ^ Avi-Yonah 1953, p. 97, note 11.
- ^ a b ‘Uqsa, 2021, Kafr Yasif
- ^ Streger, 2020, Kafr Yasif (A)
- ^ a b c Abu Raya, 2010, Kafr Yasif (A)
- ^ Pringle, 1997, p. 119
- ^ a b Conder, 1890, p. 31
- ^ Strehlke, 1869, p. 25, No. 29; Cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p. 190, No. 710; Cited in Pringle, 2009, p. 132
- ^ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 149
- ^ Strehlke, 1869, pp. 91–94, No. 112; Cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p. 331, No. 1260; Cited in Ellenblum, 2003, p. 146
- ^ Barag, Dan (1979). "A new source concerning the ultimate borders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem". Israel Exploration Journal. 29: 197–217.
- ^ Pringle, 1997, p. 119: No Crusader remains had (by 1997) been identified in the village.
- ^ Lewis, 1952, p. 17
- ^ Hutteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 191.
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
- ^ Abu-Husayn, 1985, p. 107.
- ^ Barnay, 1992, p. 156.
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 162 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 132
- ^ a b Betts, 1990, pp. 123–24
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 4-5; "A midi trente minutes, je parviens à Kefr Yasif, et pendant que l'on dresse ma tente sous un bouquet de vieux oliviers, je vais examiner ce village. Il est assis sur une colline dont les pentes inférieures vers l'ouest sont soutenues par un puissant mur d'appui, aux blocs réguliers, la plupart de grand appareil et antiques. Kefr Yasif renferme 600 habitants, parmi lesquels 100 tout au plus sont Musulmans; les autres appartiennent à la religion grecque schismatique. Ces derniers ont une église qui date de cent quarante ans et dans l'intérieur de laquelle quelques tableaux passables, qui ornent l'iconostase, sont, m'a-t-on dit, un don de la Russie. La construction la plus ancienne du village est une sorte de petite tour carrée, bâtie avec des pierres très régulières, et renfermant une chambre voâtée qu'éclaire un œil-de-bœuf au-dessus duquel une croix a été sculptée au dehors. Elle faisait partie autrefois d'un bâtiment plus considérable, qui a été démoli et remplacé par des maisons toutes modernes. Au bas de la colline du village, vers l'ouest, est un beau puits, profond de 25 brasses et d'apparence antique. Il est construit en pierres de taille. Le réservoir et les auges qui l'environnent sont aussi bâtis avec des pierres de même appareil. A cinq minutes au sud de Kefr Yasif, on me signale l'emplacement d'une ancienne église, dont il ne subsiste plus que le souvenir. De là on a extrait plusiem·s colonnes et de nombreuses pierres de taille. "
- ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 146–47
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 169
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 172
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. 36
- ^ a b c Sa'di, Ahmad. "Control and resistance at local-level institutions: A study of Kafr Yassif's local council under the military government", Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23, 2001, pp. 31–47.
- ^ Mills (1932), p. 103
- ^ a b Swedenberg (2003), pp. 107–09.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ehr/cep002. Archived from the original on 2016-02-21.)
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- ^ Palestine Government Village Statistics, April 1945 Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine p. 2.
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 80
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 130
- ^ Morris (2004), p. 416.
- ^ Freeman, Charles (25 March 1949). Evacuation of Refugees from Kafr Yasif.
- ^ Jiryis (1968), p. 57.
- ^ Morris (2004), p. 515.
- ^ Masalha and Said (2005), p. 27.
- ^ Fallah, Ghazi. Arabs versus Jews in Galilee: Competition for regional resources.
- ^ Jiryis, S. "The land question in Israel", MERIP Reports, No. 47 (May, 1976) pp. 5–20, 24–26.
- ISBN 978-0-300-13441-4. p. 96.
- ^ Pappe (2011), pp. 84–85.
- ^ Herzog (1999), p. 175.
- ^ Firro (1999), pp. 185–86.
- ^ a b McGahern (2011), p. 162.
- ^ Mansour (2004), p. 275.
- ^ McGahern (2011), p. 163.
- ^ McGahern (2011), p. 164.
- ^ a b Firro, 1999, p. 141.
- ^ Charles Kamen, The Arabs in Israel, 1948–1951, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (1987), pp. 453–95.
- ^ Population of Localities Numbering Above 2,000 Residents and Other Rural Population Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 2.
- ^ McGahern, 2011, p. 46
- ^ a b c Smith, Sylvia (11 August 2012). "First Palestinian male ballet dancer battles prejudices". BBC News. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ Dana, 2003, pp. 30–31
- ^ Mansour, 2004, p. 256.
- ^ a b c d e Shihade 2014, p. 456.
- ^ Smorzik, Elad (2011-02-01). "Movement for Equality". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
- ^ Ahronovitz, Esti (21 February 2008). "Born to Dance". Haaretz. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Thousands honor drowned dancer Ayman Safiah at his funeral". Jerusalem Post. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
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External links
- Official website
- Welcome To Kafr Yasif
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons