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Welcome To Kabara - كبارة (כבארה)

District of Haifa
Ethnically cleansed days ago
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Statistic & Fact Value
Occupation Date April 30, 1948
Distance From District 30 (km) South East of Haifa
Elevation 25 (meters)
Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Detailswhat's new
Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction
Map Location See location #38 on the map

View from satellite
Military Operation Possibly the Coastal Clearing Operation
Exodus Cause Expulsion by Zionist troops
Village Temains The village has been completely destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.
Ethnically Cleansing Kabara inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership
Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab 1,070
Jewish 3,487
Public 5,274
**Total 9,831
**Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
Land Usage
As of 1945
Land Usage Arab (Dunum)* Jewish (Dunum)*
Citrus Groves 2 0
Irrigated & Plantation 20 0
Olive Groves 20 0
Planted W/ Cereal 4,310 3,065
Arable 4,332 3,065
Non-Arable 2,012 422
Population
Year Population*
1931 572
1945 120
1948 139
Est. Refugees 1998 855
*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics
Number of Houses
Year Number of Houses
1931 117
1948 117
Near By Townswhat's new
al-Tantura
          ↖
Zikhron Ya'akov
↗        
al-Tantura  ←
Kabara
→   Binyamina
            ↙
Qisarya
Town's Name Through History The Crusades referred to Kabara by Pain Perdu.
Archeological Sites A nearby cave contained a deep Middle Palaeolithic deposit that was covered by a Natufian layer dating to about the 9th millennium B.C.
Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands		 Ma'yan Tzevi, Ma'agan Mikha'el, & Beyt Chananya

Village Before Nakba

The village was situated on the coastal plain, at the foot of the western slopes of Mount Carmel, just east of the coastal highway. Its name was probably a plural of kubri, a loanword from the Turkish word for bridge (köprü), and referred to the numerous bridges built across the nearby al-Zarqa River. Kabara has been identified with the Crusader locality of Pain Perdu. The population was Muslim. The village's economy depended on agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 only 2 dunums of land were devoted to citrus and bananas, while 1,001 dunums were allotted to cereals; 20 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Above the village (on the slopes of Mount Carmel) and to the east of it lay a cave known as Mugharat al-Kabara , an important prehistoric site discovered in 1929 and excavated by several teams, most recently (1982) by a French-Israeli team. The cave contained a deep Middle Palaeolithic deposit that was covered by a Natufian layer dating to about the ninth millenium B.C.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

No information could be found about the occupation of this village. It was probably occupied during the second campaign to 'clear' the northern coastal plain of all Arab communities between Tel Aviv and the settlement of Zikhron Ya'aqov, south of Haifa. This would suggest that it was captured either in April or the first half of May 1948. However, it may have held out until late May, like the nearby village of al-Tantura.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

The settlement of Ma'yan Tzevi, founded in 1938, is on village lands to the north of the site. Two other settlements, Ma'agan Mikha'el and Beyt Chananya , were built on village lands in 1949 and 1950, respectively, after the village had been depopulated.

Village Today

The rubble from the village houses has been moved up the slope where it is now visible, covered with dirt. Cactuses and banana trees, as well as isolated fig, carob, and olive trees, grow on the site.

Source

Dr. Walid al-Khalidi, 1992: All That Remains.
Related Maps Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
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