Lid was a
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
village in the
Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1948 Arab–Israeli War on April 9, 1948. It was 32 km southeast of
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
.
History
The Khirbat al-Manatir contained artifacts from the
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
period.
Ottoman era
In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine
The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...
'' (SWP) found at ''Ludd'' "traces of ruins, with a pillar-shaft near a spring".
While surveying for the construction of the Jezreel Valley railway
The Jezreel Valley railway, or the Valley Train ( he, רַכֶּבֶת הָעֵמֶק, ''Rakevet HaEmek'' ; ar, خط سكة حديد حيفا – درعا, khaṭṭ sikkat ḥadīd Ḥayfa–Dar‘a) was a railroad that existed in Ottoman and ...
, Gottlieb Schumacher noted in 1900 that ''Ludd'' was a "flourishing village" of 46 huts and 200 inhabitants, built up by the Bedouin of the ''Merj''.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the tribal area of ''Al Awadein'' had a population of 402 Muslims,[Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p]
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 451, in 87 houses. In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 640 Muslims,[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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1948 and aftermath
After the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. The moshav of HaYogev was established in 1949, west of the village site and partly on village land.[
In 1992 the village site was described as "Piles of stones, scattered across the ground near several large eucalyptus and olive trees, are all that remain of the village. There is a newly-built structure over the village well."]
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External links
Welcome To Lid, KhirbatKhirbet Lid (al-'Awwadin)
Zochrot
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8
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from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center () is a leading Palestinian arts and culture organization that aims to create a pluralistic, critical liberating culture through research, query, and participation, and that provides an open space for the community ...
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Haifa