Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre

al-Nabi Rubin
al-Nabi Rubin
Arabic النبي روبين
Name meaning The prophet Rubin[1]
Also spelled an-Nabi Rubin, Neby Rubin
Subdistrict Acre
Coordinates 33°04′48.72″N 35°17′28.72″E / 33.0802000°N 35.2913111°E / 33.0802000; 35.2913111Coordinates: 33°04′48.72″N 35°17′28.72″E / 33.0802000°N 35.2913111°E / 33.0802000; 35.2913111
Palestine grid 177/276
Population 1,400 (1945)
Area 18,563 dunams
18.6 km²
Date of depopulation early November 1948[2]
Cause(s) of depopulation Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current localities Shomera, Even Menachem, Zar'it, Shtula

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.

History

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund'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.[3]

In 1945 the population Tarbikha, Suruh and Al-Nabi Rubin together was 1000 according to an official land and population survey,[4] all were Muslims,[5] and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land.[4] 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,[6] while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[7]

1948, and afterwards

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.[8]

A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.[9]

See also

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 53
  2. Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #68. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 149.
  4. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
  5. Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945, p. 3
  6. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81
  7. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131
  8. Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7 pp 506-507
  9. Khalidi, 1992, p. 27

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