Khirbat Al-Manara

Khirbat Al-Manara
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Al-Manara (click the buttons)
Khirbat Al-Manara Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°38′44″N 34°57′52″E
Palestine grid	146/227
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	May 21, 1948
Current Localities	Ofer[1] Kerem Maharal[1]

Khirbat Al-Manara was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 21, 1948. It was located 19 km south of Haifa.^[2]

History

In the 1931 census Khirbat Al-Manara was counted together with Ijzim, Al-Mazar and Qumbaza. The total population was 2160, 88 Christians, 2082 Muslims, in a total of 442 houses.^[3]

References

1. Khalidi, 1992, p. 176
2. Khalidi, 1992, pp. 174-176
3. Mills, 1932, p. 91

Bibliography

• Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.

External links

• Welcome To al-Manara
• Khirbat al-Manara, Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia Commons