Al-Jalama, Haifa

Al-Jalama
Al-Jalama
Arabic	الجلمة
Name meaning	The hill[1]
Subdistrict	Haifa
Coordinates	32°43′24.25″N 35°05′18.52″E / 32.7234028°N 35.0884778°ECoordinates: 32°43′24.25″N 35°05′18.52″E / 32.7234028°N 35.0884778°E
Palestine grid	158/236
Area	7713[2] dunams

Al-Jalama (Arabic: الجلمة‎) was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of Haifa. It was depopulated in 1948.

History

The village was situated just above Khirbat Asafna. Excavations between 1964 and 1971 showed that the site had been occupied intermittently from the first to the fourth century A.D.^[3]

In the British Mandate period in Palestine, the village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer.^[2] In the 1931 census of Palestine, Al-Jalama was counted under Isfiya.^[4]

The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village in 1992: "A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees."^[2]

In 1948 al-Jalama was depopulated.

Israel currently operates a notorious children's prison at Al-Jalama.^[5]

See also

• List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 109
2. Khalidi, 1992, p. 167
3. Weinberg, 1988, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 167
4. Mills, 1932, p. 92
5. Sherwood, Harriet (22 January 2012). "Palestinian children – alone and bewildered – in Israel's Al Jalame jail". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2012.

Bibliography

• Berlin, Andrea; et al. (2004). Testament of Time: Selected Objects from the Collection of Palestinian Antiquities. Rosemont Publishing. ISBN 0-8386-3975-5.
• Brill, Robert H (1988). "8". Scientific Investigations of the Jalame Glass and Related Finds (PDF). Missouri press.
• Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Weinberg, Gladys Davidson (1988). Excavations at Jalame: Site of a Glass Factory in Late Roman Palestine. Missouri press.

External links

• Welcome to al-Jalama
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Jalame, tour, 10.4.04 from Zochrot