Fara
فارة | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: Farah, The highest parts of a mountain[1] | |
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  Fara Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°03′57″N 35°27′29″E / 33.06583°N 35.45806°E | |
| Palestine grid | 193/274 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | October 30, 1948[3] |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 320[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Fara (Arabic: فارة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 11.5 km north of Safad on the Wadi al-Fara.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 72
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #35. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 7,229Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69