Al-Jalama, Tulkarm

This article is about the village in the Tulkarm District. For other places with a similar name, see Al-Jalama.
Al-Jalama
الجلمه
Village
1870s map of the area around Al Jalama
1870s map of the area around Al Jalama
Etymology: "The heap"[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Jalama, Tulkarm (click the buttons)
Al-Jalama is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Jalama
Al-Jalama
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′32″N 35°00′35″E / 32.39222°N 35.00972°E / 32.39222; 35.00972
Palestine grid151/199
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTulkarm
Date of depopulation1 March 1950[5]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
70[2][3][4]
Current LocalitiesLehavot Haviva

Al-Jalama (Arabic: الجلمه) or Khirbat al-Jalama (Arabic: خربة الجلمه) was a Palestinian Arab village 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) north of Tulkarm. Situated close to the eastern banks of a valley of the same name (Wadi Jalama), it was inhabited during the Crusader and Mamluk periods, and again in Ottoman period by villagers from nearby Attil.

Al-Jalama's population was expelled by the Israeli military on 1 March 1950 after it fell under Israeli rule as a result of the 1949 armistice agreement that ended the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was subsequently built over by the Israeli kibbutz of Lehavot Haviva.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 183
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 554
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Morris534 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).