Jahula
Jahula (Arabic: جاحولا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad.
Jahula
جاحولا | |
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| Etymology: Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Jahula (click the buttons) | |
Jahula Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°07′29″N 35°34′02″E | |
| Palestine grid | 203/281 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,869 dunams (3.869 km2 or 1.494 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 420 |
In 1945, the village had a population of 420. The village had one mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salih.
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