Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre

Al-Nabi Rubin (Arabic: النبي روبين‎), was a Palestinian village located 28 kilometers northeast of Acre. Al-Nabi Rubin students used to attend school in the nearby village of Tarbikha.

This article is about the former village in Acre Sub-district. For the former village in Ramle Sub-district, see Nabi Rubin.
al-Nabi Rubin

النبي روبين

an-Nabi Rubin, Neby Rubin
Etymology: The prophet Rubin[1]
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al-Nabi Rubin
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′49″N 35°17′29″E
Palestine grid177/276
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictAcre
Date of depopulationearly November 1948[2]
Area
 • Total18,563 dunams (18.6 km2 or 7.2 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total1,000 with Tarbikha and Suruh[3][4]
Cause(s) of depopulationExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesShomera, Even Menachem, Zar'it, Shtula

History

Ottoman era

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Al-Nabi Rubin: This is a small village round the tomb of the Neby, containing about ninety Moslems, it is situated on a prominent top, and surrounded by many olives, a few figs and arable land; there are two cisterns and a birket near.[5]

British rule

In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Suruh and Al-Nabi Rubin together was 1000 Muslims according to an official land and population survey,[3][4] all were Muslims,[6] and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land.[4] 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,[7] while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[8]

Israeli period
IDF soldiers during Operation Hiram, as photographed in Sa'sa' on 30 October 1948

The village was captured by Israel as a result of the Haganah's offensive, Operation Hiram during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrine. Al-Nabi Rubin inhabitants were expelled to Lebanon in two waves, the aged and infirm were the last to depart when the IDF trucked them to the Lebanese border.[9]

A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.[10]

See also

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 53
  2. Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #68. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
  4. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
  5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 149.
  6. Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945 Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 3
  7. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81
  8. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131
  9. Morris, 2004, pp. 506-507
  10. Khalidi, 1992, p. 27

Bibliography
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