Jalbun

It has been suggested that Jalbun is identical to Gelbus, a place mentioned in Eusebius' Onomasticon.{{Cite journal |last=Avi-Yonah |first=M. |author-link=Michael Avi-Yonah |date=1976 |title=Gazetteer of Roman Palestine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43587090 |journal=Qedem |volume=5 |pages=60 |jstor=43587090 |issn=0333-5844}} Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.Dauphin, 1998, p. 786

In 1517 Jalbun was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.{{Cite web |last1=al-Bakhīt |first1=Muḥammad ʻAdnān |last2=al-Ḥamūd |first2=Nūfān Rajā |title=Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/28579982 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=www.worldcat.org |publisher=Jordanian University |pages=1–35 |language=en |publication-place=Amman |publication-date=1989}}{{Cite journal |last1=Marom |first1=Roy |last2=Tepper |first2=Yotam |last3=Adams |first3=Matthew |title=Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine |url=https://www.academia.edu/101515579 |journal=Levant |date=2023 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=218–241 |doi=10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484}}

In 1838 it was noted as an inhabited village, Jelbon,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n174/mode/1up 157], [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n188/mode/1up 171] located in the District of Jenin, also called Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh district.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/130/mode/1up 2nd app, p. 130], no 8

In 1870 Victor Guérin found that Jalbun was divided into two quarters, with houses built of adobe. In the centre was an ancient mosque, situated east to west, which Guérin took to be a former church. There were ancient cisterns dug into rocks.Guerin, 1874, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsam01gu#page/334/mode/1up 334] -335

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=David |title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine |publisher=Magnes Press |year=2004 |location=Jerusalem |pages=256}}

In 1882 Jalbun was described as a “small village in a remote position on one of the spurs of the Gilboa range. It is surrounded with plough-land, and built of mud and stone, and supplied by cisterns”," in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/84/mode/1up 84]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalbun had a population of 410; 405 Muslims and 5 Christians,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n31/mode/1up 29] where the Christians were all Orthodox.Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n49/mode/1up 47] The population increased in the 1931 census to 564, all Muslim, in a total of 119 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 68]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Jalbun, (including Kh. el Mujaddaa) was 610, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg 16] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905203337/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg |date=2018-09-05 }} with 33,959 dunams of land, 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/Jinin/Page-054.jpg 54] 243 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 19,104 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/Jinin/Page-098.jpg 98] while 25 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/Jinin/Page-148.jpg 148]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jalbun came under Jordanian rule.

Israeli forces attacked Jalbun village, with small arms, on the 5 December 1949, they then expelled the inhabitants from their village causing fatal casualties amongst the villagers. The Jordanian government strongly protested against unwarranted Israeli action and called the UN Secretary-General to notify the United Nations Security Council to take prompt and strict measures to return expelled Palestinians to their village, to hand back their looted belongings, and to compensate the villagers for all losses and damages.[https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/DA383477088E6B6E85256DA200507250 S/1428 6 December 1949] Telegram from Ruhi Abdul Hadi, Minister Foreign Affairs, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to UN Secretary General

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 826 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p25.pdf 25]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jalbun has been under Israeli occupation.

Jalbun's residents have their origins in settlers from Qabatiya, some of which originally came from Iraq.Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 349 The majority of Jalbun's inhabitants belong to the Dar Abu Rub (Rbubiya) clan, which is one of four prominent clans in Qabatiya.{{Cite book |last=זהרוני |first=אילן |title=דת ופולחן וקברי קדושים מוסלמים בארץ-ישראל |publisher=הוצאת ספרים אריאל |year=1996 |editor-last=שילר |editor-first=אלי |series=אריאל: כתב עת לידיעת ארץ ישראל |location=ירושלים |pages=165–173 |language=he |chapter=משפחות קדושות ועושי נפלאות באזור הגלבוע |trans-chapter=Holy families and miracle workers in the Gilboa region}}

Among villages in the vicinity of Mount Gilboa and northern Samaria, the Dar Abu Rub clan is regarded as holy, with various folklore stories associated with them.

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