Ya'bad

Ya'bad
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	يعبد
• Also spelled	Yabad (official)
Skyline of Ya'bad, Palestine
Ya'bad Location of Ya'bad within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°26′48″N 35°10′13″E / 32.44667°N 35.17028°E / 32.44667; 35.17028Coordinates: 32°26′48″N 35°10′13″E / 32.44667°N 35.17028°E / 32.44667; 35.17028
Palestine grid	166/205
Governorate	Jenin
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Head of Municipality	Samer Abu Baker
Area
• Jurisdiction	21,622 dunams (21.6 km2 or 8.3 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	13,640
Name meaning	Yabid, p.n.

Ya'bad (Arabic: يعبد‎‎; Hebrew: יעבד‎) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate. It is a major agricultural town with most of its land covered with olive groves and grain fields. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 13,640 in 2007. Its mayor is Samer Abu Baker who was elected in 2005. The Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan is built on Ya'bad's land.

In 1596 Ya'bad appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 62 households, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, summer crops, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes. A waqf was dedicated to Halil ar-Rahman. In the 17th-18th centuries, Ya'bad was well known for producing the best cheese in Samaria. Politically it was ruled by the Qadri clan allied with the powerful Abd al-Hadi clan.

In 1870 French explorer Victor Guérin noted Ya'bad situated "on a hill", while in the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (1882), Yabid was described as "a good-sized stone village, with some Christian families and two factions of Moslems, called respectively the 'Abd el Hady and the Beni Tokan, living in separate quarters. The village stands on a ridge, with a well to the south and a small separate quarter on the east, in which is a small Mukam."