Ya'bad

Pottery sherds from the Persian, Hellenistic, early Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Medieval eras have been found here.Zertal, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA109 109]

In 1596 Ya'bad appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 62 households, all Muslim. They paid a tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 18,085 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a waqf dedicated to Halil ar-Rahman.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 128 In 1694, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, a Muslim traveler, passed by Ya'bad and noted it as "a village between Jenin and Arrabeh".Cited in Zertal, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA108 108]

In the 17th-18th centuries, Ya'bad was well known for producing the best cheese in Jabal Nablus. Politically it was ruled by the Qadri clan allied with the powerful Abd al-Hadi clan.Doumani, Beshara. (1995). [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft896nb5pc&chunk.id=ch1&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch1&brand=eschol;query=Ya%E2%80%98bad#1 The Hinterland of Nablus] In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village, Ya'bud, located in the esh–Sha'rawiyeh esh–Shurkiyeh District.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/129/mode/1up 129]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted Ya'bad situated "on a hill",Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n248/mode/1up 223] while in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (1882), Yabid was described as "a good-sized stone village, with some Christian families and two factions of Moslems, called respectively the 'Abd el Hady and the Beni Tokan, living in separate quarters. The village stands on a ridge, with a well to the south and a small separate quarter on the east, in which is a small Mukam."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/47/mode/1up 47]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yabid had a population of 1,733, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n32/mode/1up 30] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 2,383, still all Muslim, in 418 occupied houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 71]

In 1935 the prominent Arab resistance leader Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and a few of his men were killed in a cave near Ya'bad during a firefight with the British.Segev, 2013, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nLjPzQJEAkMC&pg=PA360 360] -362

In the 1945 statistics the population of Ya'bad (including Khirbat el Khuljan, Khirbat et Tarim, Khirbat Tura ash Sharqiya, Nazlat Sheik Zeid and Khirbat Umm Rihan) was 3,480, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p17.jpg 17] with 37,805 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-055.jpg 55] 6,035 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 9,955 dunams 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-100.jpg 100] while 92 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-150.jpg 150]

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 4,709 inhabitants in Ya'bad.Government of Jordan, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p13.pdf 13]

Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Ya'bad has been under Israeli occupation. The population of Ya'bad in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 4,857, of whom 581 originated from the Israeli territory.{{cite web |url=http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_2.pdf |title=The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version |author=Perlmann, Joel |date=November 2011 – February 2012 |website=Levy Economics Institute |access-date=25 January 2018 }}

In May 1985 five village women set up a Women's Work Committee which opened a kindergarten for 60 children and started a sewing course with 32 young women.Middle East International No 272, 4 April 1986, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters. Joost R. Hiltermann p. 16

A major charcoal mine is located near Ya'bad and most of its workers come from the town.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7027405.stm Palestinians struggle in dire straits] Martin Asser BBC News Since the establishment of "closed-off areas" and the construction of the West Bank Barrier in the northern West Bank, Ya'bad and surrounding cities and towns have seen an increase in unemployment which reached to 88% in 2006. The annual average income has dropped "dramatically" by one-third according to the World Bank.

Residents of Ya'bad originated from various locations, such as Egypt, Iraq, the area of Jerusalem, and neighboring villages.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

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• {{cite book | title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population | author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics | year = 1964|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}}
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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Ya_bad_1693/index.html Welcome To Ya'bad]
• [https://www.welcometopalestine.com/destinations/jenin/yabad/ Yabad], Welcome to Palestine
• 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]
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• [http://poica.org/2007/05/hundreds-of-dunums-confiscated-for-bypass-road-construction/ Hundreds of dunums confiscated for bypass road construction] 07, May, 2007, POICA
• [http://poica.org/2011/11/confiscating-a-truck-in-yabad-village-jenin-governorate/ Confiscating a Truck in Ya'bad Village - Jenin Governorate] 06, November, 2011, POICA

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