Dayshum

The village laid on a hillside overlooking the Wadi Hindaj stream and valley in the Upper Galilee, about {{convert|600|m|ft|sp=us}} above sea level. It was located {{convert|12|km|mi|sp=us}} north of Safed.{{sfn|Sharon|2004|p=135}}

Dayshum was listed in the 1596 (or 1548) Ottoman tax registers as a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira (part of Safad Sanjak), with a population of 50, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes; a total of 2,112 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (Muslim charitable endowment).Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 177. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 445

Dayshum was settled by Algerian immigrants, one of several vacant or underdeveloped villages settled by Algerians in the environs of Safed under the auspices of the Ottoman authorities in the late 19th century. The historian Moshe Sharon suggests Dayshum was not settled by the Algerians until after 1875, as the village was not mentioned by the traveler Victor Guérin, who noted other Algerian villages in the vicinity that year.{{sfn|Sharon|2004|p=136}} The village was exclusively populated by Algerians. They hailed from the Ayet Yihya tribe from Tigzirt.{{sfn|Abbasi|2003|p=45}} As some of their ancestors had been horsemen in Algeria, the villagers of Dayshum took a keen interest in raising horses.Khalidi, 1992, p. 445

In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Dayshum as an"well-built" village with about 400 residents, all Algerians. The village houses were situated on the side of a steep hill near the bottom of a valley and had gabled roofs. The village had three mills and several small gardens.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/201/mode/1up 201], Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 445-446

In 1921 inspectors from the British Mandatory Department noted a maqam (holy person's shrine) northeast of the village site, dedicated to a Sheikh Haniyya.{{sfn|Sharon|2004|p=[https://archive.org/stream/9004131973#page/n189/mode/1up 135]}} In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dayshum had a population of 479, all Muslim,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n43/mode/1up 41] decreasing slightly in the 1931 census of Palestine to 438, still all Muslim, in 102 inhabited houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 106]

By 1942 or 1943, the village had a primary school. Dayshum was also home to a prominent imam in the Safed region at that time, Sheikh Mohammad al-Wannas.{{sfn|Abbasi|2003|p=54}} In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 590 Muslims, with a total of 23,044 dunams of land. Of this, a total 4,701 dunums of village land was used for cereals and 611 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Safad/Page-118.jpg 118] while 17,093 dunams were classified as non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Safad/Page-168.jpg 168]

In 1953, the Jewish community of Dishon was established on village land. Its name is a reflection of the village's Arabic name.{{sfn|Sharon|2004|p=135}}

In 1992, the village site was described: "Cactuses and thorns grow on the site. The only indications of the former existence of Dayshum are piles of stones from the destroyed houses and terraces. Moshav Dishon uses the land around the site for animal grazing and apple cultivation."

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• {{cite journal |last =Abbasi |first=Mustafa |pages=41–59 |title=From Algeria to the Holy Land: Algerian Communities in the Galilee, from the Late Ottoman Period to 1948 |journal=The Maghreb Review |date = 2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrVwAAAAMAAJ}}
• {{cite book |editor =Barron, J. B. |title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine |year = 1923}}
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• {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Department of Statistics|year=1945|publisher=Government of Palestine}}
• {{cite book|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}}
• {{cite book | last1= Hütteroth|first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth

|first2=K. | last2=Abdulfattah |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah

| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ | year = 1977 | publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft|isbn= 3-920405-41-2}}

• {{cite book|title=All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
• {{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}
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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/Dayshum/index.html Welcome to Dayshum], Palestine Remembered
• [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49117 Dayshum], Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8367 IAA], Wikimedia commons
• [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/safad/dayshum.htm Dayshum], at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/Dayshum.htm Dayshum], Dr. Khalil Rizk.

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