Al-Mas'udiyya (also known as ''Summayl''), was a
Palestinian Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
village in the
Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of
Jaffa
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, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village used to be known as Summayl.
History
In
1799, it was noted as an unnamed village on the map that
Pierre Jacotin compiled that year.
An
Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that ''Samwil'' had 23 houses and a population of 62, though the population count included men, only. It was noted as a
Bedouin camp, 4,5 km north of Jaffa centre, and 1 km from the sea.
[Socin, 1879, p]
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In 1882, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described Summeil as an ordinary adobe village, which had a large well, and a cave.
Excavations revealed traces of Late Ottoman infant
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jar-burials, commonly associated with nomads
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or itinerant workers of Egyptian origins.[Taxel, Y., Marom, R., & Nagar, Y. (2025)]
An Infant Jar Burial from Zarnūqa: Muslim Funerary Practices and Migrant Communities in Late Ottoman Palestine
'''Atiqot'', 117, 269–293.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Mas'udiyeh'' had a population of 443; 437 Muslims and 6 Christians,[Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p]
20
/ref> (where the Christians all belonged to the Templar community),[Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p]
46
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 658; 654 Muslim and 4 Christians, in a total of 127 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
14
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On 20 December 1942, Al-Mas'udiyya was annexed into Tel Aviv
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as part of a municipal border expansion.[
Al-Mas'udiyya had an elementary school founded in 1931, and in 1945 it had 31 students.][
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1948, aftermath
In 1992, the village site was described: "The area is part of Tel Aviv. All that remains of the village is one deserted house that belonged to Muhammad Baydas. Cactuses, castor-oil ( ricinus) plants, and palm and cypress trees further mark the site. Nearby is the al-Mas'udiyya (or Summayl) bridge – an arched, steel structure."[
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References
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External links
al-Mas'udiyya (Summayl)
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*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13
IAA
Wikimedia commonsA Mosque Once Stood Here
Meron Rapoport Sep 16, 2005, Haaretz
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Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Jaffa