Kafr Qara

Kafr Qara was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, and in the Defter no. 610, which was written soon after 1540, the revenue of Kafr Qara was designated to an endowment in Jerusalem; the Madrasah Al-Uthmaniyya (com). The whole of the revenue of Kafr Qara, a total of 3,400 aspers annually, belonged to this endowment.[5]

In 1859 the population was 450 people, who cultivated 32 feddans of land.[6] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kefr Kara as a "good-sized stone village on high ground, with a well to the east, and caves."[6]

A population list from about 1887 showed that Kiryat Kefr Kara had about 705 inhabitants, all Muslim.[7]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Qara had a population 776; 767 Muslims and 9 Christians,[8] where the Christians were 7 Roman Catholics and 2 Maronites.[9] The population had increased in the 1931 census to 1,109; 4 Christians and 1,105 Muslims, in 198 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics, Kafr Qara had a population of 1,510 Muslims,[11] who owned 14,543 dunams of land.[12] Of this, 227 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 11,516 for cereals,[13] while 25 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

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  Kafr Qara 1942 1:20,000
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  Kafr Qara 1945 1:250,000

Kafr Qara is part of the Triangle. It is located in the Wadi Ara region, northwest of the Green Line. Most of the inhabitants are Muslim. It is governed by a local council. Kafr Qara now has about 7000 dunams of land left, after land was expropriated by the local authorities and Israeli government for public and military use.[15] WAC, an independent labor association, is located in the village.[16]