Welcome To Tulayl - تليل (תליל)

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Statistic & Fact

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Occupation Date

April 28, 1948

Distance From District

14.5 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

75 (meters)

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Map Location

See location #40 on the map

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Military Operation

Operation Yiftach (commanded by the ethnic cleansing champion Yigal Allon)

Attacking Units

The Palmach's First Battalion

Exodus Cause

Military assault by Zionist troops

Village Temains

The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of one stone house.

Ethnically Cleansing

Tulayl inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	3,556
Jewish	1,753
Public	15
**Total	5,324

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	22	0
Planted W/ Cereal	3,388	1,637
Built up	48	0
Arable	3,410	1,637
Non-Arable	113	116

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	215
1922	296
1931	274
1945	340
1948	394
Est. Refugees 1998	2,422

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 64 (includes al-Husayniyya)

Near By Towns

al-Kharrar ↖	Hulah Lake ↑ (N)
al-Husayniyya ←	Tulayl	→ al-Dirdara
	↓ Kirad al-Baqqara	↘ Kirad al-Ghannama

Town's Name Through History

The Romans referred to the village by Thella.

Schools

The village share an elementary school with the nearby village of al-Husayniyya, which was built during the British Mandate period.

Nearby Wadies & Rivers

The village was bordering al-Hindaj and al-Waqqas wadis

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
That Usurped Village Lands

Yesud ha-Ma'ala and Chulata are nearby the village

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on a small, sandy hill on the southwestern shore of Lake al-Hula, near the merging of the al-Hindaj and Waqqas wadis with the lake. Its hilltop location protected it from floods. Many scholars identify the mound on which Tulayl was built with the Roman town of Thella. In 1596, Tulayl was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 215. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of produce, such as bees and water buffalo. [Hut. and Abd.:178] Its houses, made of mud and cane, were closely packed together.

In modern times the village expanded westward, and by the end of the British Mandate, it had approached the village of al-Husayniyya, which itself was expanding eastwards. The two thus became virtually one village with shared services, including a school established by the local Society of Village Improvement. The entire population of the two villages was Muslim. Agriculture was the main source of livelihood; the villagers grew mostly grain and vegetables, although some of them raised water buffalo and others were fishermen. In 1944/45 a total of 3,388 dunums was allocated to cereals and 22 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Like most villages in the neighborhood of Lake al-Hula, Tulayl was conquered in the course of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-disctrict). Little is recorded about the manner in which this happened, but Israeli historian Benny Morris speculates that its inhabitants abandoned it in late April 1948. Most nearby villages were depopulated as a result of either bombardment by mortars or a psychological warfare campaign designed to instill fear of an imminent attack, or by both. These measures were adopted partly in preparation for the capture of Safad, and partly to achieve the depopulation of eastern Galilee.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

In 1883, Zionists had established the fortress settlement of Yesud ha-Ma'ala (207273) about 1.5 km northwest of the village site. It was not, however, on village land. The settlement of Chulata (207273), founded in 1937 on village land, is 1 km to the northwest of the village site.

Village Today

The village site is thickly covered with grass and other vegetation, including some eucalyptus and palm trees. Only one old stone house, with an arched doorway, remains standing. The surrounding land is now cultivated by the settlement of Chulata.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.

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