Dayr Ayyub
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| Arabic | دير أيوب |
| Name meaning | the monastery of Job |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°49′38″N 35°01′06.45″E / 31.82722°N 35.0184583°ECoordinates: 31°49′38″N 35°01′06.45″E / 31.82722°N 35.0184583°E |
| Palestine grid | 151/137 |
| Population | 320 (1945) |
| Area | 4,500 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | April, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Canada Park |
Dayr Ayyub (Arabic: دير أيوب ) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 6, 1948 by the Givati and Sheva' brigades of Operation Nachshon. It was located 17.5 km southeast of Ramla, situated close to Bab al-Wad. On attack, the village was defended by the Jordanian Army but was mostly destroyed with the exception of a few houses and the village cemetery.
To the northwest of the village site is an area which, according to village belief, contained the tomb of the prophet Ayyub, the Biblical Job. Archaeological remains, which attest to major agricultural activity have been found, dating from the Late Hellenistic and the beginning of the Early Roman periods (first century BCE–first century CE).
A census by the Ottomans in 1596 registered the village as belonging to the nahiya (subdistrict) of Ramla, (liwa' (district) of Gaza), and with a recorded population of 94. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and vineyards.
Victor Guérin visited in 1863, while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 36, in a total of 9 houses, though the population count included men, only.
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