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Abu Kishk

Coordinates: 32°08′10.73″N 34°51′55.21″E / 32.1363139°N 34.8653361°E / 32.1363139; 34.8653361
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Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine

Abu Kishk was a Palestinian bedouin village in the District of Jaffa located 12 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 2 km northwest of the al-'Awja River. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on 30 March 1948 by the Israeli attacking brigade of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi.

The "Arab Abu-Kishk" is a tribe that came from Egypt and owned large areas in the Sharon plain, from Herzliya to Petah-Tikva.

In 1945 the population of the village was about 1,900, about 300 of them lived in the area of the future Herzliya[1].

Location

The village was situated about Template:Km to mi northwest of the Al-Awja river. Secondary roads linked it to the Jaffa-Haifa highway and to neighboring villages.[2]

History

In 1925 the village school was founded. By the mid-1940´s it had 108 students, including 9 girls.[2]

In 1944/45 a total of 2,486 dunums of village land was used for citrus or bananas, 14,018 was planted with cereals; while 226 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[3][4]

Relations with the neighboring Jews

The relationship between the members of the tribe and the Jewish settlers of Herzliya were friendly. Evidence to this fact can be found in an invitation [5] which was sent to the settlers of Herzliya by Sheikh Muhammad Sheker Abu-Kishk: "To the honorable sirs from the town of Herzliya, I invite the honorable settlers from your town to participate in the celebration of my brothers Abdullah and Saif Al-Din. And I will be happy if you would fill my invitation. In respect and brother's blessing, Sheikh Muhammad Sheker Abu-Kishk ".

Yossef Sappir, the mayor of Petah-Tikva comes to offer his condolences to the Mukhtar of the nearby Abu-Kishk village, 20 October, 1942.

Notes

  1. ^ Herzliya, "Mother of the Kibbutzim and the Communal Groups", by Dan Yahav. Yaron Golan Publishers.
  2. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p.235
  3. ^ Hadawi, 1970, p.95
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.236
  5. ^ The Herzliya Archive, 1-1/3/25, section 1

Bibliography

  • Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
  • Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0887282245
  • Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521009677, 9780521009676 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

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