Jahula
| Jahula | |
|---|---|
 Jahula
|
|
| Arabic | جاحولا |
| Name meaning | Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 33°07′28.33″N 35°34′02.55″E / 33.1245361°N 35.5673750°ECoordinates: 33°07′28.33″N 35°34′02.55″E / 33.1245361°N 35.5673750°E |
| Palestine grid | 203/281 |
| Population | 420 (1945) |
| Area | 3869 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | May, 1948 |
Jahula (Arabic: جاحولا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 1, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad.
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.
Jahula was situated in the foothills of the Galilee Mountains overlooking the Hula Valley plain, by the Tiberias—al-Mutilla highway.
The Jahula area had been occupied from the seventh through the third millennium B.C., according to archaeological excavations conducted in 1986. Pottery remains from the Roman and Byzantine periods have also been found in the area.
Jahula was recorded in the Ottoman census of 1596 as belonging to the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira under the liwa' (district) of Safad, and at the time it had a small population of 28 inhabitants. They paid taxes on crops such as wheat and barley, and reared goats, bees, and water buffalos.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found at Ain Jahula "a large perennial spring, with a stream flowing to the march of the Huleh; a large supply of good water".
...
Wikipedia