Qaffin

In the 1596 Ottoman tax-records a village named Qaffin appeared part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jenin under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 27 Muslim households. They paid taxes on a number of products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 9,000 akçe.[7]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then named Kuffin as: "A good sized village on the low hills east of the Plain of Sharon, with a well on the south side. It has rock cut tombs, and a palm grows near the village."[8]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kaffin had a population of 721 Muslims,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to 1,085 Muslims, living in 255 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Qaffin, (including Kh. el Aqqaba and Kh. esh Sheik Meisar) was 1,570 Muslims,[11] and the land area was 23,755 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,[13] while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

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  Qaffin 1942 1:20,000
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  Qaffin 1945 1:250,000

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

In 1961, the population of Qaffin was 2,457.[15]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qaffin has been under Israeli occupation.