Al-Judeida ( ar, الجديدة) is a Palestinian village in the

Jenin Governorate The Jenin Governorate ( ar, محافظة جنين, Muḥāfaẓat Ǧanīn) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine. It covers the northern extremity of the West Bank, including the area around the city of Jenin. During the first six months of th ...

in the western area of the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

, located south of

Jenin Jenin (; ar, ') is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, Jenin had a population of app ...

. According to the

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, the town had a population of 4,738 in the 2007 census.

History

Al-Judeida is an ancient village, where

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ceramics have been found. Zertal notes that the sherds from the Byzantine era were at the edge of the hilltop upon which al-Judeida stands.

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found in the village mostly date back to the medieval and Ottoman eras. During Crusader rule, in 1168, al-Judeida was an estate called ''Gidideh''.

Ottoman era

Like all of

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, al-Judeida was incorporated into the

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in 1517. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, al-Judeida was an entirely

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

village with a population of 10 families, located in the

Nahiya A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

Jabal Sami, in the Nablus Sanjak. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for grape syrup or olive oil; a total of 3,500

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. Most of the buildings in the old core of Judeida date back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1838, Edward Robinson noted the village when he travelled in the region, as bordering the extremely fertile

Marj Sanur Marj Sanur ( ar, مرج صانور, translation: "Sanur Valley"; also called Marj al-Ghuruq, translation: "Drowning Valley" is a closed basin within the northern mountains of the West Bank, located entirely in the southern Jenin Governorate, in be ...

. He listed it as part of the District of ''Haritheh'', north of Nablus. In 1870, French traveler

Victor Guérin Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Mino ...

visited al-Judeida, describing it as being amid "gardens of fig trees, pomegranates and olives. It seems to be an ancient site, because of the many rock hewn cisterns and the well-shaped stones contained in the walls of its 35 houses." In 1882, it was described by the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' as "a good-sized village on flat ground, with a few olives".

British Mandate era

In the 1922 British census, Al-Judeida had a population of 361, all

s, increasing in the 1931 census to 569 inhabitants, still all Muslims, living in a total of 106 houses.Mills, 1932, p
69
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, the population was 830, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
16
with 6,360

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

s of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of the village's lands, 2,211 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,850 dunams for cereals, while 20 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.

Jordanian era

Following the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

, and the subsequent

1949 Armistice Agreements The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

ian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,351 inhabitants in ''Judeida''.

Post-1967

Since the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...

in 1967, Al-Judeida has been under

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. Under the Oslo Accords, the town was assigned to

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. On Saturday 9 January 2016 resident Ali Abu Maryam (23) was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the

Beka'ot Beka'ot ( he, בְּקָעוֹת, , 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.

roadblock.Israeli Army Says Two Palestinians Killed After Attempted Stabbing
Gili Cohen, 9/1/2016, Ha'aretz

Geography

Al-Judeida is situated at the southern edge of the

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

s. It has narrow alleys that meet at a square in the old core's center.Zertal, 2004, p
246
/ref> The nearest localities are

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to the southwest, Meithalun to the northwest, Sir to the north,

Aqqaba Aqqaba ( ar, عقّابة) is a Palestinian town located on a slope in the Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank, 15 kilometers northeast of Jenin in the Tubas Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau ...

to the northeast and

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to the east.

Demographics

Al-Judeida had a population of 3,639 in the 1997 census by the

(PCBS).

Palestinian refugees Palestinian refugees are citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and their descendants, who fled or were expelled from their country over the course of the 1947–49 Palestine war (1948 Palestinian exodus) and the Six-Day War (1967 Palestinian exodu ...

and their descendants accounted for 17.5% of the inhabitants.. 1997 Census.

(PCBS). 1999. In the 2007 PCBS census, al-Judeida's population grew to 4,738. The number of households was 923, with each household containing an average of between five members. Women made up 49.8% of the population and men 50.2%.

References

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External links

Welcome To Judeida Judaydah
Welcome to Palestine *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Judeida Jenin Governorate Villages in the West Bank Municipalities of the State of Palestine