Dahi ( ar, الدحي) ( he, דַחִי) is an

Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

village in northeastern

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 ...

. Located on

Givat HaMoreh Givat HaMoreh (Hebrew: גבעת המוֹרֶה), in Arabic: Jebel ed-Duhy, is a hill in northern Israel on the northeast side of the Jezreel Valley. The highest peak reaches an altitude of , while the bottom of the Jezreel Valley is situated at ...

(Jebel Dahi in Arabic) overlooking

Afula Afula ( he, עפולה Arabic: العفولة) is a city in the Northern District of Israel, often known as the "Capital of the Valley" due to its strategic location in the Jezreel Valley. As of , the city had a population of . Afula's ancient ...

, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Bustan al-Marj Regional Council The Bustan al-Marj Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית בוסתן אל-מרג', ''Mo'atza Azorit Bustan al-Marj'') is a regional council in northern Israel. Its territory lies adjacent to the Jezreel Valley and north of Afula, and inclu ...

. The village is situated at an altitude of 550 meters above sea level. As of it had a population of .

History

Dahi was named after Dahia Bin Khalifa al-Kalbei, who according to

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

ic tradition, was a friend of the prophet

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

. Dahia, an ambassador of Muhammad, attempted to convert Byzantine emperor

Heraclius Heraclius ( grc-gre, Ἡράκλειος, Hērákleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), was List of Byzantine emperors, Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the Exa ...

. According to local tradition, Dahia was killed and buried in the site of the village.Dahei
Bustan al-Marj Regional Council.

Ottoman era

In 1875

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 ...

found here a small village, consisting of fifteen "miserable" houses, surrounded by gardens and bordered by cactus hedges. In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it as "a little

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

of stone cabins, on the saddle west of the conical peak of ''Jebel ed Duhy''. Straggling olives exist on the north and west. The water supply is from a

well A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...

lower down the hill, on the north."

British Mandate era

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...

conducted by the British authorities, Al Dahi had a population of 84, all

Muslims 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 Abraha ...

,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p
38
/ref> increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 87, still all Muslim, in a total of 16 houses. In the 1945 statistics the population was 110, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
8
/ref> while the total land area was 8,038

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, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 19 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,979 for cereals, while 10 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p
159
/ref>

State of Israel

In February 2016,

announced that its offices would move from Afula to Ed Dahi. Council chairman Ahmed Zoabi noted "The offices are now located in one of the four villages of the council and this is important". In September 2017, the regional council completed its road-paving project.

References

Bibliography

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External links

Welcome To al-Dahi
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9
IAAWikimedia commons
{{Bustan al-Marj Regional Council Arab villages in Israel Populated places in Northern District (Israel)