Dayr al-Hawa ( ar, دير الهوا) was a

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village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 19, 1948, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of

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History

Coins and ceramics from the

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era have been found here.

Ottoman era

In 1838, Edward Robinson called it a "lofty" village, on the brink of a valley. It was further noted as a Muslim village, located in the District of ''el-Arkub'', southwest of Jerusalem. In 1856 the village was named ''D. el Hawa'' on Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year.

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, visiting the village in 1863, wrote that ''Dayr al-Hawa'' "probably owes its name, ''monastery of the wind'', to its high position". An Ottoman village list from around 1870 showed that ''Der el-Haw''a had 32 houses and a population of 103, though the population count included men, only. In 1883, the PEF's ''

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'' described it as "a village standing high, on a knoll rising from a high ridge, with a deep valley to the north. It has several high houses in it. On the west is a good spring. The ground is covered with brushwood all round the place."Conder and Kitchener, 1883, p
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/ref> In 1896 the population of ''Der el-hawa'' was estimated to be about 162 persons.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted i by the British Mandate authorities, ''Dair al-Hawa'' had a population of 38 residents; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 47 inhabitants, in 11 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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/ref> In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 60 Muslims, with a total of 5,907 dunums of land. Of this, 58 dunams were for irrigable land or plantations, 1,565 for

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, while 4 dunams were built-up land. A

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was located in the western part of the village and there was a

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for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Sulayman. Near the ruins of the old village now stands the Israeli moshav, Nes Harim,Zvi Dror, ''Har'el: Palmach brigade in Jerusalem'', Ha-kibbutz ha-meuchad 2005, p. 269 (Hebrew) however, it is not on village land. (It is on the land of Bayt 'Itab.)Khalidi, 1992, p. 286 During the 1948 it was defended by the local militia and the Egyptian Army/ Muslim Brotherhood Battalion. File:Deiraban 1945.jpg, Dayr al-Hawa, Mandate survey, 1:20,000 File:Allar 1945.jpg, Dayr al-Hawa, 1945, 1:20,000

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