:Kafr Kanna

Archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered remains dating from the Neolithic to the Mamluk periods. Evidence for a large Early Bronze Age settlement was excavated adjacent to the perennial Kanna spring, overlaying a site dating to the Early Chalcolithic Period. A fortification wall indicates that the settlement was fortified.[http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=2211 Excavations and Surveys in Israel]

Kana was mentioned in the Amarna letters.

In 2001, remains of a 4th-century BCE pottery kiln that produced everted rim storage jars were found adjacent to the Kanna spring.{{Cite web |url=http://www.antiquities.org.il/site_Item_eng.asp?id=53 |title=early remains in Kfar Cana |access-date=19 April 2016 |archive-date=17 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917123326/http://www.antiquities.org.il/site_Item_eng.asp?id=53 |url-status=dead }}

During the first century CE, Kafr Kanna was a Jewish village.Charlesworth, J. H., & Aviam, M. (2014). Reconstructing First-Century Galilee: Reflections on Ten Major Problems. In Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perceptions, The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research, Princeton 2007 (pp. 103-37). Chicago It was mentioned by the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus in his The Life of Flavius Josephus.{{Cite journal|last=Pilter|first=W. T.|date=1883|title=Where is Cana of Galilee|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/peq.1883.15.3.143|journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly|language=en|volume=15|issue=3|pages=143–148|doi=10.1179/peq.1883.15.3.143|issn=0031-0328}}

On the outskirts of the modern town is the tomb of the Jewish sage, rabbi Simeon ben Gamliel, who became the Nasi (president) of the Sanhedrin in 50 CE. His tomb has remained a Jewish pilgrimage site over the centuries.[http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=19541 "Tomb of Shimon ben Gamliel vandalized"], Jerusalem Post, April 21, 2006 (accessed August 7, 2012).[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3805518,00.html Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel's tomb set ablaze, arson suspected], YNet News, November 15, 2009 (accessed August 7, 2012).

Excavation beneath Kafr Kanna's Franciscan church uncovered mosaic floor panels with Aramaic donor inscriptions, using the square Jewish script. An inscription on one of the panels commemorates "Yose son of Tanhum son of Botah," stating that he, along with his sons, made a donation for the creation of the inscribed panel. The other inscription may possibly mention the name Yeshu'a. Excavations under the same church also unearthed a round "discus" lamp dating from the second century AD, which includes a signature of the potter, named Iason.{{Citation |title=CIV. Kafr Kanna |date=2023-03-20 |work=Volume 5/Part 1 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 5876-6924 |pages=983–992 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110715774-112/html |access-date=2024-02-07 |publisher=De Gruyter |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783110715774-112 |isbn=978-3-11-071577-4}}

In 2023, a burial cave with decorated stone ossuaries that were used by Jews for secondary burial in the years following the Bar Kohkba revolt was discovered in Kafr Kanna.{{Cite web |title=Israel Police save unique Bar Kochba revolt coffins from grave robbers |url=https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-743940 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}

During excavations at Kerem er-Ras/Karm er-Ras, located on the western periphery of the village of Kafr Kanna, a fragment of a Latin burial inscription was discovered in 2001. This inscription, dating back to the 5th century AD, mentions Legio X Fretensis. It is today on display in the Hecht Museum on Haifa.{{Citation |title=Volume 5/Part 1 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 5876-6924 |date=2023-03-20 |work=Volume 5/Part 1 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 5876-6924 |pages=983-991 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110715774/html |access-date=2024-01-22 |publisher=De Gruyter |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783110715774/html |isbn=978-3-11-071577-4}} Also unearthed in Kafr Kanna is a magic amulet from the 5th to 7th century, including a metal inscribed charm with 41 lines of Aramaic using the Jewish script. This amulet was designed to counter various fevers, referencing sacred names like Abraxas and the letter tsade (צ), symbolizing the name Sabaoth, as well as a Hebrew idiom.

In the early 9th century, under Abbasid rule, Abu Salih Khayr al-Khadim, an eunuch of Caliph al-Mu’tazz b’illah, left all his property in Kafr Kanna and another Galilee village, Kfar Tavor (then called Kafr Tabaria), to a waqf (religious endowment). The endowments were supposed to be eternal, but were presumably ended by the conquest of the Crusaders in 1099.Mehmet Tutuncu and Lotfi L Abdeljaouad, 2021, [https://www.academia.edu/62140250/Earliest_Islamic_Waqf_on_stone Earliest Islamic Waqf on stone][https://archive.today/20211205192021/https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-earliest-waqf-legacy-in-the-world-is-deciphered-two-villages-in-palestine-1.10441673 Earliest waqf legacy in the world is deciphered: Two villages in Palestine], Ruth Schuster, Dec. 5, 2021, Haaretz[https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5930791 The earliest known Waqf inscription in stone; a large and impressive calligraphic marble stele, Near East or Egypt, circa 880-900], 8 Oct 2015; Christie's

The Persian traveler Nasir-i-Khusraw visited the village in 1047 CE and described the place in his diary:

{{blockquote|To the southward [of Kafar Kannah] is a hill, on the top of which they have built a fine monastery. It has a strong gate, and the tomb of the prophet Yunis (Jonas) [...] is shown within. Near the gate of the monastery is a well, and the water thereof is sweet and good. [...] Acre is 4 leagues distant.Le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/469/mode/1up 469]}}

During the Crusader period, the Persian traveler Ali of Herat wrote that one could see the Maqam of Jonas, and also the grave of his son, at Kafr Kanna. This was repeated by the Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi, although he only wrote of the tomb as being that of Jonas's father. The name Casale Robert was used by the Crusaders, beside variations of the Arab name. In August 1254 Julian, the lord of Sidon, sold it to the Knights Hospitaller.Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p. [https://archive.org/stream/regestaregnihie00rhgoog#page/n327/mode/1up 321], no. 1217

Around 1300, during Mamluk rule, Kafr Kanna was described as being a large village, in which lived the chiefs of various tribes. The head tribe is called Kais al-Hamra ("Kais the Red.") According to the chronicler al-Dimashqi, the district al-Batuf, called "the Drowned Meadow", belonged to the village. Al-Dimashqi further remarked that the waters of the surrounding hills drained into the area, flooding it; as soon as the land was dried up grain was sown.Le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/470/mode/1up 470]

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|caption1="Sun setting over landscape with Cana in the distance" (1839) in David Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia

|caption2="Kefr Kenna" (1859) in William McClure Thomson's The Land and the BookThomson, 1859, vol 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/landandbookorbi08thomgoog#page/n132/mode/1up 120]

|footer=Two versions of the same picture, twenty years apart, with the first labelling it "Cana" without reservation, and the latter as "Kefr Kenna". Thomson wrote that he considered Edward Robinson's 1841 Biblical Researches in Palestine "has about settled the question" of Cana's location in favor of Kana el Jalil.

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Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the village flourished in the 16th century, as it lay on the western trade route between Egypt and Syria.David, 2010, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qqy4wqVbSUkC&pg=PA189 189] High taxes of different kinds were levied on the busy market. Among other things it traded in cloths, produced in Galilee for international consumption. Public baths and ovens were also taxed.Rhode, 1979, pp. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 142, 153–154, 159] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=20 April 2019 }} In 1533, Ottoman officials recorded the population as 147 households, and by 1596 (or rather 1548) it grew to 475 Muslim taxpayers (426 households and 49 bachelors) and 96 Jewish taxpayers (95 households and 1 bachelor),Petersen, 2005, p. [https://archive.org/stream/TheTownsOfPalestineUnderUnderMuslimRule/AndrewPetersenTheTownsOfPalestineUnderMuslimRule-600-1600#page/n139/mode/1up 131]. Note that Petersen only count the households (hana), and not the bachelors making it the sixth most populous locality in Palestine at the time. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a market toll; a total of 56,303 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 187Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=20 April 2019 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied from the Safad-district was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9 At the time, Kafr Kanna was one of the few market villages in the Safed Sanjak (district of Safed) and the second largest after the city of Safed.Rhodes 1979, pp. 153–154. It was also the only locality in the sanjak besides Safed to have a public bathhouse.Rhodes 1979, p. 159.

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as Cana,Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 166] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222063351/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |date=22 December 2019 }} and David Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia illustrated the same in two separate lithographs. Edward Robinson's 1841 Biblical Researches in Palestine wrote that "The monks of the present day, and all recent travellers, find the Cana of the New Testament, where Jesus converted the water into wine, at Kefr Kenna", however he argued that Cana's location was in fact at the ruins known as Kana el Jalil (Cana of Galilee).[https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft/page/n221/mode/2up Biblical Researches in Palestine], 1841, p.204-208 In the 1881 PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), described it as a stone-built village, containing 200 Christians and 200 Muslims.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/363/mode/1up 363] A population list from about 1887 showed that Kefr Kenna had about 830 inhabitants; "the greater part Christians."Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n209/mode/1up 184]

File:Abbud, Cana.jpg, c. 1925]]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Kenna had a total population of 1,175; 672 Muslims and 503 Christians,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n40/mode/1up 38] of the Christians, 264 were Greek Orthodox, 82 Roman Catholics, 137 Melkites (Greek Catholics) and 20 Anglicans.Barron, 1923, Table XVI, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n53/mode/1up 51] The population had increased at the 1931 census to 1,378; 896 Muslims and 482 Christians, in a total of 266 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 74]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 1,930; 1,320 Muslims and 610 Christians,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p08.jpg 8] while the total land area was 19,455 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nazareth/Page-062.jpg 62] Of this, 1,552 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 11,642 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nazareth/Page-109.jpg 109] while 56 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nazareth/Page-159.jpg 159]

During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Kafr Kanna was captured by units of Israel's 7th Brigade in the second half of Operation Dekel (July 15–18, 1948).Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&dq=kafr+kanna&pg=RA3-PA420 421] On July 22, 1948, the two priests, Giuseppe Leombruni (Catholic) and Prochoros (Greek Orthodox), and the Christian mayor surrendered Kafr Kanna peacefully to the advancing Haganah troops, ensuring that the population could remain in the village.Cana commemorates the courage of Father Leombruni, Custodia Terrae Sanctae website, 5 June 2011 [http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=779&id_n=9787]Padre Giuseppe Leombruni, un francescano coraggioso, Christian Media Center, 6 July 2011 [http://cmc-terrasanta.com/it/video/padre-giuseppe-leombruni-un-francescano-coraggioso-717.html] Kafr Kanna remained under martial law until 1966.

On 30 March 1976, a resident of Kafr Kanna, Muhammad Yusuf Taha, was one of six people killed by the Israeli army during Land Day demonstrations.Pappe, 2011, p. 241

In November 2014, there were clashes for some days because Israeli police killed one Israeli Arab, who attacked a police van with a knife. The police said that they had fired warning shots before shooting him but relatives said he was shot in "cold blood" and images from closed-circuit television (CCTV) showed a police officer shooting at the man while he was backing away.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/arab-israeli-anger-simmers-galilee-deadly-shooting-203108429.html |title=Arab Israeli anger simmers in Galilee after deadly shooting |work=Yahoo! News |date=10 November 2014}}

The mayor of the town is Mujahed Awadeh.

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The town is identified by Christians as the town of Cana, where Jesus performed a miracle at the Marriage at Cana (John 2:1–12). According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914, the identification of Kafr Kanna with Cana dates back to at least the 8th century. However, the general view starting from the 12th-century placed Cana at Khirbet Kana, a site {{convert|8.5|km|mi}} to the northwest of Kafr Kanna. Later, the traditional identification with Kafr Kanna reemerged strongly in the mid-14th-century and until the present day.Pringle, 1993, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BgQ6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA285 285]

Cana is also mentioned as the home town of the Apostle Bartholomew, as "Nathanael of Cana" in John 21:2.

The main churches in Kafr Kanna are the Franciscan Wedding Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of St George and the Baptist Church. Near the two is the (usually closed) Roman Catholic Chapel of the Apostle Bartholomew (Nathanael).{{Cite web|url=http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=2734|title=Sanctuaries|access-date=20 April 2016|archive-date=15 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915001940/http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=2734|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://goisrael.com/tourism_eng/tourist%20information/discover%20israel/cities/Pages/kafr%20kana.aspx|title = Go Israel}}

Kafr Kanna achieved local council status in 1968. In 2006, there were 18,000 residents,[http://www.cbs.gov.il/population/new_2007/table3.pdf Population of localities numbering above 1,000 residents and other rural populations on 31/12/2006] Central Bureau of Statistics The population grew to 20,832 in the 2014 census.{{Israel populations|reference}} As of 2014, Christians formed about 11% of the population.[http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications16/local_authorities14_1642/pdf/696_0509.pdf כפר כנא 2014]{{cite web|title=Arab Christians in Israel|url=http://iataskforce.org/sites/default/files/resource/resource-266.pdf|website=iataskforce.org|publisher=Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues|pages=1–2|date=June 2014}}

As is the case with many other mixed Muslim-Christian towns in the region, the Christians generally tend to live in the oldest part of town. In Kafr Kanna—and in Kafr Yasif and 'Abud, among others—there are two ancient nuclei in the town: the earlier one where Christians live, and another (also hundreds of years old) where Muslims live.Ellenblum, 2003, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=riHMZiH_Te4C&pg=PA144 144]

Hapoel Kafr Kanna and F.C. Tzeirei Kafr Kanna plays in Liga Alef (the third tier). Beitar Kafr Kanna both play in Liga Bet (the fourth tier). Maccabi Kafr Kanna, which dissolved in 2014, have played at the second level in the past.{{fact|date=September 2022}}

• Abdulmalik Dehamshe, resident, former Knesset member, United Arab List
• Wasil Taha, resident, Knesset member, Balad party

• Arab localities in Israel

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• {{cite book|last=Thomson|first=W.M.|author-link=William McClure Thomson|title=The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land|url=https://archive.org/details/landandbookorbi08thomgoog|edition=1|volume=2|publisher=Harper & brothers|location=New York|year=1859}}

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• {{cite web|url= http://www.adva.org/socialreport2001english.pdf |title=Israel: A Social Report }}

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