Burayka

The Crusaders called the place for Broiquet.Khalidi, 1992, p. 155 In 1265, Burayka was among the villages and estates sultan Baibars allocated to his amirs after he had expelled the Crusaders. Half of the income from Burayka went to his emir Jamal al-Din Musa b. Yaghmur, the other half to emir 'Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Hilli al-Ghazzawi.Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 82, 209, 249 (map)

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small village on a hill-top, with a well to the north, and wooded country round."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/41/mode/1up 41] A population list from about 1887 showed that Bureikeh had about 115 inhabitants, all Muslim.Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n205/mode/1up 180]

A school, founded in 1889 during the Ottoman period, was located in the village, but was closed during the British Mandate period.

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ibraikeh had a population of 249, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n36/mode/1up 34] increasing in the 1931 census to 237, still all Muslims, in 45 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 89]

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 290 Muslims, and Arabs had a total of 1,864 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 78 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 1,538 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/Haifa/Page-089.jpg 89] while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-139.jpg 139]

File:Bureka 1942.jpg

File:Caesarea 1945.jpg

Initially, the villagers did not want to take part in the war, and they opposed garrisoning ALA militiamen in their village.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA97 97]

According to Yishuv sources, the AHC had in early March, 1948, ordered the villagers to evacuate, so that it could serve as a base for Arab irregular forces, However, most of the villagers seems to have stayed in the village at this stage.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA130 130] The village was finally depopulated in early May, in the aftermath of the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek, when IZL attacked the remaining villages in the area with mortar fire.Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA243 243]

Today, a civilian explosives factory is located on the site.{{cite web|url=http://www.explosives.co.il/history.html|title=תעשיות חרושת חומרי נפץ - היסטוריה|trans-title=Explosives industries - History|access-date=30 November 2010|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721135048/http://www.explosives.co.il/history.html|archive-date=21 July 2011}}

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• {{cite journal|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}}
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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Burayka/index.html Welcome To Burayka]
• [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49046 Burayka], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8389 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.08.jpg Wikimedia commons]

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

Category:Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Category:District of Haifa