Jahula

Jahula was situated near the Tiberias— Al-Mutilla highway, in the foothills.

The Jahula area had been occupied from the seventh through the third millennium BC, according to archaeological excavations conducted in 1986.Khalidi, 1992, p.457 Pottery remains from the Roman and Byzantine periods have been found in the area.Mokary, 2009, [http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=1215&mag_id=115 Yiftah Final Report]

Jahula was recorded in the Ottoman census of 1596 as belonging to the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira, part of Safad Sanjak, and at the time it had 5 Muslim households; an estimated population of 28 inhabitants. They paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on crops such as wheat and barley, and reared goats, bees, and water buffalos. Total revenue was 1,550 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 178. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 457Note 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=2019-04-20 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9

In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Safad district,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/134/mode/1up 134] while in 1875 Victor Guérin report passing through the village (which he called Kharbet Djaouleh), finding only a few of the houses inhabited.Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n394/mode/1up 354]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Ain Jahula "a large perennial spring, with a stream flowing to the march of the Huleh; a large supply of good water".Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/212/mode/1up 212]

The villagers of Jahula were predominantly Muslim. Their mosque, about 1 km north of the village, was the location of a shrine to Shaykh Salih.

Most villagers were engaged in agriculture, and a spring on the north side of the village supplied water. Some villagers worked in quarries north of the village.

File:Jahula 1945.jpg

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jahula had a population of 214; all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n43/mode/1up 41] increasing in the 1931 census to 357; still all Muslims, in a total of 90 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 107]

In the 1945 statistics Jahula had a population of 420 Muslims, with 3,869 dunums of land, according to an official land and population survey. 1,626 dunums were allocated to grain farming,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-119.jpg 119] while 64 dunams were classified as 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/Safad/Page-169.jpg 169]

File:Jahula.jpg erecting fencing. Jahula. 1948.]]

File:Jahula ii.jpg defensive positions. Jahula. 1948.]]

Jahula was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach.Esber, 2008, p.391, village #158 Benny Morris writes that the cause of depopulation is unknown, while the American Historian Rosemarie Esber gives as depopulation cause: "Direct mortar attacks on civilians, siege, shooting at fleeing Arabs".

Presently, the Israeli Kibbutz of Yiftach is {{convert|2|km|mi|sp=us}} northwest of the village site; there are no settlements on village lands.

Of the village site the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote in 1992: "The only remains of the destroyed village are a few stone terraces. The site is enclosed by barbed wire, and cactuses and trees grow on it. The village spring is still in use by Israelis. Parts of the village land are planted in cotton and watermelons, while other parts are wooded and hilly."

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/Jahula/index.html Welcome To Jahula]
• [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49079 Jahula], Zochrot
• [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/Jahula.htm Jahula], Villages of Palestine
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8367 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.04.jpg Wikimedia commons]
• [http://www.alnakba.org/villages/safad/jahula.htm Jahula] from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

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