Al-Sammu'i () was a
Palestinian
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Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
village in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, under
Operation Hiram. It was located 4 km west of
Safad
Safed (), also known as Tzfat (), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel.
Safed has been identified with (), a fortified town in the Upper Gal ...
. Today,
Kfar Shamai is built on the site of the old village, and
Amirim is built on the southern part of the village land.
In
1945
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Events
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, the village had a population of 310.
[ Al-Sammu'i had a mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Muhammad al-'Ajami.
Al-Sammu'i 1946
]
References
Bibliography
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455
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* (Karmon, 1960, p
165
)
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and 2nd appendix, p
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External links
al-Sammu'i
Zochrot
al-Sammu'i
Dr. Khalil Rizk
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4
IAAWikimedia commons
Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
District of Safad
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