Malha

Malha is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, between Pat, Ramat Denya and Kiryat Hayovel in the Valley of Rephaim. Before 1948, Malha was an Arab village known as al-Maliha (Arabic: المالحة).

Malha
المالحة מלחה
Etymology: The salt-pan
Village boundaries of Maliha in the Mandatory Palestine period
Palestine grid167/129
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulation21 April 1948, 15 July 1948
Area
  Total13,449 dunams (13.449 km2 or 5.193 sq mi)
Population
 (1948)
  Total1,940
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Secondary causeMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
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