Welcome To al-'Ulmaniyya - العلمانية (אל-עולמאניה)

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Statistic & Fact

Value

Occupation Date

April 20, 1948

Distance From District

14.5 (km) North East of Safad

Elevation

75 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Map Location

See location #37 on the map

View from satellite

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 completely destroyed soon after occupation.

Ethnically Cleansing

The village has been mostly ethnically cleansed and terrorized after the massacre at the nearby village of al-Husayniyya

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	1,169
Jewish	0
Public	0
**Total	1,169

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*
Planted W/ Cereal	1,135
Built up	9
Arable	1,135
Non-Arable	25

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	55
1922	122
1931	432
1945	260
1948	302
Est. Refugees 1998	1,852

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

In (1931): 100 (includes 'Arab al-Zubayd)

Near By Towns

'Arab al-Zubayd ↖	Mallaha ↑ (N)	Hulah Lake ↗
Dayshum ←	al-'Ulmaniyya	→ Hulah Lake
↙ Marus	↓ al-Husayniyya	↘ al-Kharrar

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Yesud ha-Ma'ala

Village Before Nakba

The village was located in the southwestern part of the al-Hula Plain, near the western shore of Lake al-Hula. A secondary road linked it to a highway leading to Safad. In 1596, al-'Ulmaniyya was a village in the nahiya of Jira (liwa' of Safad) with a population of fifty-five. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley. Produce and property such as goats, beehives, water buffalos, and orchards were also taxed. [Hut. and Abd.:178] In modern times al-'Ulmaniyya was oriented north-to-south. Some of its houses belonged to the 'Arab al-Zubayd Bedouin, who lived about 1.5 km from the village center. The population of al-'Ulmaniyya was predominantly Muslim. Water for domestic use was provided by nearby springs. Agriculture, especially grain cultivation, was the mainstay of its economy. In 1944/45 1,135 dunums of their land was allocated to cereals. The villagers also raised livestock. There were traces of earlier habitation in the village, and to the northwest were artificial caves that had been cut into the rock.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

Israeli historian Benny Morris provides two accounts of the depopulation of al-'Ulmaniyya. The first states that the villagers left in the wake of a Haganah 'retaliatory strike' (actually a massacre) on the nearby village of al-Husayniyya on 18 January 1948. The other account, based on Israeli military intelligence, states that they evacuated their village three months later, on 20 April, just after the beginning of Operation Yiftach (see Abil al-Qamh, Safad sub-district). This is said to have occurred either in response to a direct attack or to the threat of an attack. The two reports are not necessarily incompatible, however, and may imply that the first evacuation was partial or temporary. But the second displacement was most likely final, since practically the whole of eastern Galilee was depopulated during Operation Yiftach. [M:56, 123-24]

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

There are no Israeli settlements on village lands. However, the settlement of Yesud ha-Ma'ala (207273), established in 1883, is 2.5 km southeast of the village.

Village Today

The site is thickly wooded with eucalyptus trees, making it difficult to discern any remains ofthe village. Work is proceeding on street construction for Lake aI-Hula's nature preservation area. Some of the surrounding lands are cultivated, but most have either been made part of the preservation area or are marshland.

Source

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

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