The Tulkarm Subdistrict was one of the
subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine
The Districts and Sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the dist ...
. It was located around the city of
Tulkarm
Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of N ...
. After the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
Events January
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** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
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, the subdistrict disintegrated, the western part became part of the
Central District of
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
and the eastern part, became a part of the
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank formally occurred on 24 April 1950, after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, during which Transjordan occupied territory that had previously been part of Mandatory PalestineRaphael Israeli, Jerusalem div ...
from 1948 to 1967). Most of the eastern part is today the
Tulkarm Governorate
The Tulkarm Governorate ( ar, محافظة طولكرم, Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of Palestine located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres ...
, part of the
State of Palestine
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), Legal status of the State of Palestine, officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state (polity), state located in Western Asia. Officiall ...
.
Depopulated towns and villages
(current localities in parentheses)
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Khirbat Bayt Lid (
Nordia
Nordia ( he, נוֹרְדִיָּה) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Hist ...
)
*
Bayyarat Hannun
Bayyarat Hannun was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during "Operation Coastal Clearing" on March 31, 1948, in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 ...
*
Fardisya
Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, south of Tulkarm.
It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the ...
(
Sha'ar Efraim on nearby lands)
*
Ghabat Kafr Sur
Ghabat Kafr Sur was a Palestinian people, Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 16 km so ...
(
Beit Yehoshua
Beit Yehoshua ( he, בֵּית יְהוֹשֻעַ, , House of Yehoshua) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . The ...
,
Kfar Neter
Kfar Netter ( he, כְּפַר נֶטֶר, , Netter Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The reg ...
,
Tel Yitzhak
Tel Yitzhak ( he, תֵּל יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Yitzhak Hill) is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain to the south-east of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population ...
)
*
al-Jalama (
Lahavot Chaviva)
*
Kafr Saba
Kafr Saba ( ar, كفر سابا), historically Capharsaba, was a Palestinian Arab village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia. The village was depopulated of its Arab residents by ...
(
Beyt Berl
Beit Berl ( he, בֵּית בֶּרְל, , Berl House) is an institutional settlement in Israel. Located on the outskirts of Kfar Saba, the village falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council and is the location of Beit Berl C ...
,
HaKramim (neighborhood in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut),
Neve Yamin
Neve Yamin ( he, נְוֵה יָמִין, ''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 ...
)
*
Khirbat al-Majdal
Khirbat al-Majdal was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 10 km northwest of Tulkar ...
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Sde Yitzhak
Sde Yitzhak ( he, שְׂדֵה יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Field of Yitzhak) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a po ...
)
*
al-Manshiyya (
Ahituv
Ahituv ( he, אֲחִיטוּב) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded in 1951 by immigrants from Iran ...
,
Ein HaHoresh
Ein HaHoresh (, ''lit.'' "the plower's spring" / "the plowman's fountain") is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located to the north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
It ...
,
Givat Haim
Givat Haim ( he, גִּבְעַת חַיִּים, , Haim Hill) was a kibbutz located around five kilometres south of Hadera in Israel. It split along ideological lines in 1952, creating two new kibbutzim, Givat Haim (Meuhad) and Givat Haim (Ihud). ...
)
*
Miska (
Mishmeret
Mishmeret ( he, מִשְׁמֶרֶת, , 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 Counci ...
,
Sde Warburg
Sde Warburg ( he, שְׂדֵה וַרְבּוּרְג) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located to the north of Kfar Saba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Before the ...
)
*
Qaqun
Qaqun ( ar, قاقون) was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain.
Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyr ...
(
Gan Yoshiya
Gan Yoshiya ( he, גַּן יֹאשִׁיָּה, lit. ''Josiah's Garden'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the Green Line in the Tulkarm area, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population ...
,
Haniel
Haniel ( he, חַנִּיאֵל, ''Ḥannīʾēl'', "God is my grace"; cop, ⲁⲛⲁⲛⲓⲏⲗ ''Ananiēl''; ar, عنيائيل, '), also known as Hananel, Anael, Hanael or Aniel, is an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often i ...
,
HaMa'apil
HaMa'apil ( he, הַמַּעְפִּיל, ''lit.'' The illegal immigrant) is a kibbutz in central Israel. It is located near Ahituv within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The communit ...
,
Olesh
Olesh ( he, עֹלֶשׁ, עולש, , Chicory) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded in 1951 by i ...
,
Ometz,
Yikon)
*
Raml Zayta
Raml Zayta ( ar, رمل زيتة, ''Raml Zeitâ''), also Khirbet Qazaza, was a Palestinian Arab village located 15 km northwest of Tulkarm.Khalidi, 1992, p. 560
History
British Mandate era
In the 1931 census of Palestine it was counted w ...
(
Sde Yitzhak
Sde Yitzhak ( he, שְׂדֵה יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Field of Yitzhak) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a po ...
)
*
Tabsur
Tabsur ( ar, تبصر), also Khirbat 'Azzun ( ar, خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys. Its Palestinian population was exp ...
(
Batzra
Batzra ( he, בָּצְרָה) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Ra'anana, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Before the 20th century the area f ...
,
Ra'anana
Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important ...
suburbs)
*
Umm Khalid (
Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...
suburbs)
*
Wadi al-Hawarith (
Geulei Teiman
Geulei Teiman ( he, גְּאֻלֵי תֵּימָן or , lit. ''The Redeemed of Yemen'') is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located near Hadera in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it h ...
,
Kfar Haroeh
Kfar Haroeh ( he, כְּפַר הָרֹאֶ"ה, ''lit.'' Haroeh Village) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regi ...
,
Kfar Vitkin
Kfar Vitkin ( he, כְּפַר וִיתְקִין, ''lit.'' Vitkin Village) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council and was the first Jewish settlement in the valley. I ...
)
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Wadi Qabbani
Wadi Qabbani ( ar, وادي قباني), also known as Khirbat ash Sheik Husein ( ar, خربة الشيخ حسين) was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was probably depopulated during the 1947–48 Civ ...
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Khirbat al-Zababida
Khirbat al-Zababida was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located southwest of Tulkarm, south of Wadi al-Faliq. Khirbat al-Zab ...
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Khirbat Zalafa
Khirbat Zalafa ( ar, خربة زلفة) was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, located about northwest of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war. It was occupied by Yishuv forces on April 15, 1948 as ...
(
Givat Oz
Giv'at Oz ( he, גִּבְעַת עֹז, ''lit.'' Hill of Strength) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley between Umm al-Fahm and Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In it had a population ...
)
Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine
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