Musheirifa

Musheirifa מושיירפה‎‎ المشيرفة‎
Musheirifa in 2015
Musheirifa
Coordinates: 32°33′0″N 35°9′0″E / 32.55000°N 35.15000°E / 32.55000; 35.15000Coordinates: 32°33′0″N 35°9′0″E / 32.55000°N 35.15000°E / 32.55000; 35.15000
Grid position	164/217 PAL
District	Haifa
Name meaning	"The High Places"

Al-Musheirifa (Arabic: المشيرفة‎‎, Hebrew: מושיריפה or מושיירפה‎‎) is an Arab village in Israel's Haifa District. The village is located in the Wadi Ara area of the northern Triangle, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northeast of Umm al-Fahm. Since 1996, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Ma'ale Iron local council. In the 2008 census Musheirifa's population was counted with Bayada and together their population was 3,100, all of whom are Muslim. The village is divided into four neighborhoods: Ighbarieh, El-Manshya, Jabbarin, and the Old Village. The inhabitants are largely members of the Ighbarieh clan, which inhabits the upper parts of the village, and the Jabbarin clan, which inhabit the lower parts. Bayada was a neighborhood of the village in the past but split from it and became a new village. The village has poor infrastructure and, like many other villages in the Wadi Ara region, lacks many social institutions and recreational areas.

According to local tradition, Musheirifa was established in 1880 by people from nearby Umm al-Fahm. In the Palestine Exploration Fund's 1882 Survey of Western Palestine, Musheirifa was described as a "very small hamlet on high ground, with a well to the south".

In the 1922 census conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of the village was 203, all of whom were Muslim, increasing in the 1931 census to 233, still all Muslim, living in 45 houses. In the 1945 survey, Musheirifa's population was counted (together with other villages) under Umm al-Fahm.