Al-Jalama ( ar, الجلمة) was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of
Haifa. It was depopulated in 1948.
History
The village was situated just above Khirbat Asafna. Excavations between 1964 and 1971 showed that the site had been occupied intermittently from the first to the fourth century CE.
In the
British Mandate period in
Palestine
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* State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia
* Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia
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, the village was classified as a
hamlet in the ''Palestine Index Gazetteer.''
[Khalidi, 1992, p. 167]
In the
1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine.
* Census of P ...
, Al-Jalama was counted under
Isfiya
Isfiya ( ar, عسفيا, he, עִסְפִיָא), also known as Ussefiya or Usifiyeh, is a Druze-majority town and Local council (Israel), local council in northern Israel. Located on Mount Carmel, it is part of Haifa District. In its population ...
.
In 1948 al-Jalama was depopulated and the area was subsequently incorporated into the
State 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 ...
after the war. The Kishon prison, also known as the Al Jalame detention centre, was later established on the village site.
The Palestinian historian
Walid Khalidi described the village site in 1992: "A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees."
See also
* Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
References
Bibliography
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External links
Welcome to al-Jalamaal-Jalama (Haifa)
Zochrot
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5:
IAAWikimedia commons
Jalame
tour, 10.4.04 from Zochrot
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Arab villages depopulated after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa
Forcibly depopulated communities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict