Al-Sarafand

This article is about the former village in Haifa Sub-district. For the former village in Ramle Sub-district, see Sarafand al-Amar. For the former village in Ramle Sub-district, see Sarafand al-Kharab. For Sarafand in Lebanon near ancient Sarepta, see Sarepta.
al-Sarafand
الصرفند
Sarepta Yudee
Etymology: from a personal name[1]
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al-Sarafand is located in Mandatory Palestine
al-Sarafand
al-Sarafand
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°38′48″N 34°56′08″E / 32.64667°N 34.93556°E / 32.64667; 34.93556
Palestine grid144/228
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulation16 July 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
5,409 dunams (5.409 km2 or 2.088 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
290[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesTzrufa[5]

Al-Sarafand (Arabic: الصرفند) was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, al-Sarafand's population was 290 in 1945, entirely Arab.[3]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 141
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Hadawi49 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #174. Also gives causes of depopulation
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #124, 1949