Jarisha

Jarisha
جرِيشة
Jerisha, Jarush
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
Etymology: Jerisheh, from "to pound" or "grind"[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Jarisha (click the buttons)
Jarisha is located in Mandatory Palestine
Jarisha
Jarisha
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778
Palestine grid132/167
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Area
[2]
 • Total555 dunams (55.5 ha or 137 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total190[2][3]
Current LocalitiesYarkon Park, Tel Aviv,[4] Ramat Gan

Jarisha (Arabic: جرِيشة, also transliterated Jerisha; Hebrew: ג'רישה) was a Palestinian Arab village located 200 meters (660 ft) from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha (Tel Gerisa), on the south bank of Al-Awja (Yarkon River).[5][6] After the establishment of Tel Aviv, it was one of five Arab villages to fall within its municipal boundaries.[4] Jarisha was depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[6]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 215
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  4. ^ a b Mann, 2006, p. 246.
  5. ^ Ben-Tor and Greenberg, 1992, p. 246.
  6. ^ a b Khalidi and Elmusa, 1992, p. 246.