Kafr Jammal

Kufr Jammal
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic كفر جمّال
Kufr Jammal
Kufr Jammal
Location of Kufr Jammal within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°13′31″N 35°02′39″E / 32.22528°N 35.04417°E / 32.22528; 35.04417Coordinates: 32°13′31″N 35°02′39″E / 32.22528°N 35.04417°E / 32.22528; 35.04417
Palestine grid 154/181
Governorate Tulkarm
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 2,550
Name meaning The village of camel-drivers[1]

Kafr Jammal (Arabic: كفر جمّال‎), is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the western edge of the West Bank. It is located about halfway between Qalqilyah and Tulkarm, and has a population of around 3,000. The village is mainly agricultural, and mostly raises olive and citrus crops. Kafr Jammal is at an altitude of 257 meters, and is bordered by Falamya in the west, Kafr Zibad in the east, Jayyous in the south, and Kafr Sur to the north.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[2]

Ottoman era

Kafr Jammal was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared under that name in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b, part of the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 17 households and 13 bachelors, all Muslims. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 11,074 akçe.[3]

In 1838, Kefr Jemmal was noted as a village in the Beni Sa'ab area, west of Nablus.[4] In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Kefr Jemmal as "a small stone village on a knoll, with cisterns."[5]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Jammal had a population of 396 Muslims,[6] increasing in the 1931 census to 499; 1 Christian and 498 Muslims, in 109 houses.[7]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Kafr Jammal was 690 Muslims,[8] with 14,945 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[9] Of this, 1,702 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,451 were used for cereals,[10] while 19 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[11]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kafr Jammal came under Jordanian rule.

In 1961, the population of Kafr Jamal was 1,041.[12]

Post 1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Jammal came under Israeli occupation.

Kafr Jammal enjoys good relations with neighboring territories, and heavy education and commercial exchange take place among them. The village is also notable for having a large diaspora outside the West Bank, mostly in Jordan, but also in Saudi Arabia and the United States. Kafr Jammal's population follow the Hanbali and Shafi'i fiqh (schools of Sunni Islam).

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 183
  2. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 772
  3. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 140
  4. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 128
  5. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 165
  6. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. 28
  7. ↑ Mills, 1932, p.55
  8. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 126
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 176
  12. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 27

Bibliography

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. 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.
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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