Salem, Ma'ale Iron

Coordinates: 32°32′26″N 35°12′5″E / 32.54056°N 35.20139°E / 32.54056; 35.20139
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Salem
  • סאלם‎
  • سالم
Salem in 2016
Salem in 2016
Salem is located in Haifa region of Israel
Salem
Salem
Salem is located in Israel
Salem
Salem
Coordinates: 32°32′26″N 35°12′5″E / 32.54056°N 35.20139°E / 32.54056; 35.20139
Grid position169/216 PAL
Country Israel
District Haifa
CouncilMa'ale Iron
Population
 (mid-2016[1])
 • Total1,699
Name meaningfrom a personal name[2]

Salem or Salim (

Muslims. The village is divided into five neighborhoods: Abu Bakr, Darwish, Subaihat, Ayash and Rifai.[4] Most of the adult males in the village work in manual labour.[5]

History

Pottery remains from the Iron Age I, IA II,[6] Persian[6][7] and the Hellenistic era have been found,[6] and a rock-hewn installation has been excavated from the latter period.[8]

Pottery and coins have been also been found from the

Mamluk period.[6][9]

Ottoman era

Salem, like the rest of the region of

Muslim. It paid a fixed tax of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; the taxes totalled 4,300 akçe.[11]

French traveler Victor Guérin visited in 1870 and noted that "There are now not more than 150 residents, and it sits on a hill from which the view encompasses a considerable part of the Jezreel Valley."[12] He further noted that there were "distinct traces" of ancient buildings.[13]

In 1870/1871 (1288

AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[14]

In 1882, the

well on the north".[15]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census the population of the village was 44, all Muslim.[16] Both in the 1931 census and in the 1945 statistics the population was counted with that of Rummanah.[17][18][19][20][21]

1948 war

During the

1948 Arab-Israeli War the village and the surrounding area came under Iraqi control.[22] In March 1949 Jordanian forces replaced the Iraqi forces in Wadi Ara.[22] On 3 April 1949 Israel and Jordan signed an armistice agreement in which Israel would receive the Wadi Ara area.[23] During the war, 15 refugee families settled in the village.[24]

State of Israel

In November 1954, a Jordanian force entered the village and attacked a squad of

Magav policemen, wounding one.[25] The incident caused outrage because the villagers did not report that the village was captured and did not oppose the force, allowing it to attack Israeli security personal. The villagers said they were in their homes and didn't see anything.[26] The villagers had strong relations with the nearby Palestinian village of Rummanah, as two of Salem's clans originated in Rummanah. In the 1950s there was constant smuggling between the two villages.[26]

In the late 1950s, the Jewish

Hebrew. The villagers started reporting the Israeli authorities about attacks coming from Jordan.[27]

Salem is one of the villages of Wadi Ara that lacked municipal status after the establishment of Israel.[28] and was under the administration of mukhtars (village headmen) who were appointed by the Interior Ministry.[29] and salem's muckhtar was named Taleb Abu Bakr[5] These mukhtars administrated the village until 1992, when the Interior Ministry established the Nahal Iron regional council, uniting it with seven other Arab villages. Salem was one of the two villages that cooperated with the council, while the other villages objected to the administrative arrangement and sought independent municipal status for each village. During this period most of the existing roads in Salem were paved. To allay local concerns in other villages, the Interior Ministry established an investigative committee to examine other options, and in 1996, decided to split the regional council into two local councils, one of them is Ma'ale Iron, which includes Salem and the other one is Basma. Since 2010 the Ma'ale Iron municipality building is located in the village[3]

Demographics

Population

According to the 2008 census of the

Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Salem had 1,600 residents, 99.9% of them Muslim.
49.8% were under age 17, 48.1% were aged 18–64, and 2.1% were over 65. The median age was 18.[30]

Development of the population[16][31][30][1]
Year 1922 1961 1972 1983 1995 2008 2016
Population 44 168 248 482 675 1,600 1,699

Labour

According to the 2008 CBS census, 32.5% of residents were in the annual

retail trade, and Auto Mechanism; 8.8% in manufacturing; and the rest in other sectors. 100% of the female workforce worked in education.[30]

Clans

Salem is divided into two parts. The western part is inhabited by members of the Abu Bakr clan which originated in Ya'bad; in 2001 this clan numbered 3,500, of which 3,000 lived in the West Bank and 500 lived in Israel–300 in Salem and 200 in nearby Zalafa. The eastern part is inhabited by members of the Araf'aiya and Subaihat clans, as well as some other clans.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "معطيات واحصائيات" [Data and Statistics]. Ma'ale Iron Local Council.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 152
  3. ^ a b "רקע היסטורי" [Historical background]. Ma'ale Iron Regional Council (in Hebrew).
  4. Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
    . Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ a b c Gal, Sharon (16 April 2001). "יש לנו מזל שהיה אתם יהודי" [We were luckey they had a Jew with them]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Zertal, 2016, pp. 96-98
  7. Mapa
    . Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  8. ^ Mahamid, 2006, Salim (East)
  9. ^ a b c Cohen and Haiman, 2008, Salim
  10. ^ Dauphin, 1998, pp. 740–1
  11. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  12. ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 230-232; as translated in Zertal, 2016, p. 98
  13. ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 230-232; mentioned in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
  14. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
  15. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 45
  16. ^ a b Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  17. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 70
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  19. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
  20. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
  21. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
  22. ^
    ISBN 0-19-829459-X
    pp. 299, 312
  23. ^ "Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  24. ^ Musa, Anas. "Salem" (in Arabic). PLS48.NET. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  25. ^ "ירדנים ירו על על משמר צה'י'ל" [Jordanians fired at an IDF guard]. Davar (in Hebrew). 2 November 1954. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  26. ^ a b "אנשי הכפר סאלים לא התנגדו ולא הזעיקו עזרה" [Salem residents didn't resist and didn't call for help]. Davar (in Hebrew). 22 November 1954. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  27. ^ Bernet, Michael (August 2004). page 44–45.
  28. ^ Peretz, Issac (16 May 1986). "הודעה בדבר בצגת רשימות הבוחרים לכנסת לשנת פנקס החוברים ה'תשמ"ו/ה'תשמ"ז – 1986–1987" [Announcement about presentation of the lists of electors for the Knesset for Electoral Register year 5746-7 (1986–7)]. Ministry of Interior (Israel) (in Hebrew). Maariv. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  29. ^ "מעלה עירון [Ma'ale Iron]" (in Hebrew). Iron Construction Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  30. ^
    Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel)
    . Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  31. ^ 1995 Census – List of communities, geographical characters and population 1948, 1961, 1972, 1983, 1995 Archived 2012-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 25 May 2016

Bibliography

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