Al-Kafrayn

Al-Kafrayn
Children of Al-Kafrayn, around 1937
Al-Kafrayn
Arabic	الكفرين
Also Spelled	Kafrin, al-
Sub-district	Haifa
Coordinates	32°34′24.7″N 35°07′08.50″E
Population	920 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation	12–13 April 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Kafrayn (Arabic: الكفرين‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 12, 1948 as part of the Battle for Mishmar ha-'Emeq. It was located 29.5 km southeast of Haifa. The Crusaders referred to al-Kafrayn as Caforana.

In 1945 the village had a population of 920. Today, an Israeli military training camp occupies the area.

References

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2 (p.42)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
• Khalidi, Walid (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
• Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7, 9780521009676

External links

• Welcome To al-Kafrayn
• al-Kafrayn, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Response to "Chronicles of a Piece of Jewelry" by Eitan Bronstein, Hakkibutz, Feb. 8, 2007, Zochrot
• Tour of Kafrayn, 10.2.07, Zochrot
• Booklet about Kafrayn, downloadable, from Zochrot