Welcome To Ma'dhar - معذر (מעד'ר)

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Occupation Date

May 12, 1948

Distance From District

12.5 (km) Southwest of Tiberias

Elevation

200 (meters)

Before & After Nakba, Click Map For Details

Pre-Nakba Map showing before and after destruction

Pre-Nakba Aerial View

Map Location

See location #21 on the map

View from satellite

Military Operation

Operation Gideon

Attacking Units

Golani Brigade

Exodus Cause

Abandonment based on Arab orders

Village Temains

The village has been completely defaced, and only house rubble left behind.

Ethnically Cleansing

Ma'dhar inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.

Pre-Nakba
Land Ownership

Ethnic Group	Land Ownership (Dunums)*
Arab	6,045
Jewish	5,287
Public	334
**Total	11,666

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

Land Usage
As of 1945

Land Usage	Arab (Dunum)*	Jewish (Dunum)*
Irrigated & Plantation	498	0
Olive Groves	30	0
Planted W/ Cereal	5,479	5,287
Built up	63	0
Arable	5,977	5,287
Non-Arable	339	0

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Population

Year	Population*
1596	94
19th century	250
1922	347
1931	359
1945	480
1948	557
Est. Refugees 1998	3,419

*Sourced from British Mandate's Village Statisitics

Number of Houses

Year	Number of Houses
1931	91
1948	141

Town's Name Through History

The Crusades referred to Ma'dhar by Kapharmater.

Schools

Ma'dhar had a school founded which was by the Ottomans, but closed its doors during the British Mandate period.

Places of Warship

One mosque

Water Supply

Ma'dhar drew its water from two nearby springs to the east and west,and few artesian wells.

Archeological Sites

Ma'dhar contains a ruined church, a burial ground, and the ruins of a Crusade fortress called Casel de Cherio.

Exculsive Jewish Colonies
Who Usurped Village Lands

Kefar Qish, Sharona, and Shadmot Devora

Village Before Nakba

The village stood on elevated, flat terrain in eastern lower Galilee, 6 km to the northeast of Mount Tabor (Jabal al-Tur). Several streams from village springs fed Wadi al-Bira, one of the Jordan's tributaries. A dirt path linked it to the village of Kafr Kama in the northwest, itself on a highway leading to Samakh on the southern tip of Lake Tiberias. The village was known as Kapharmater during the Crusader period; a Crusader fortress, Casel de Cherio, was built there. In 1596, Ma'dhar was a village in the nahiya of Tiberias (liwa' of Safad) with a population of ninety-four. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and cotton, as well as on other types of property, such as goats, beehives, and orchards. In the late nineteenth century, Ma'dhar was described as a village built of basalt and other types of stone, situated on an arable plain. Its population was about 250.

The village had no particular shape; its houses were dispersed in all directions around a densely-built core, which was in the south. They were built of stone, adobe, and cement; some roofs were made of wood or reeds and covered with a layer of mud. The residents of Ma'dhar were Muslims and maintained a village mosque. A school, built in the village during the Ottoman period, was closed down during the British Mandate. The people drew water for their domestic needs from two springs, east and west of the village, and from wells.

The villagers depended on agriculture and cattle breeding for their livelihood. Agriculture was based on grain and vegetables; but fruit trees were also planted on land to the north, west, and south. In 1944/45 a total of 5,479 dunums was allocated to cereals; 498 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted with olive trees. Ma'dhar was built over the remnants of the Crusader and Ottoman villages. Remains from these periods included a ruined church and its burial ground. To the southwest lay Khirbat Sara (192231), which was also an archaeological site.

Village Occupation and Ethnic Cleaning

There is some inconsistency in the Israeli accounts of the fate of the village in the early months of the war. Israeli historian Benny Morris writes that the village (along with the neighboring cluster consisting of Sirin, 'Awlam, and Hadatha) was ordered to be evacuated on 6 April 1948 by the Arab Higher Committee, which is unlikely. The implication is that the order was carried out almost immediately. But the History of the Haganah states that the same cluster of villages was overrun by units of the Golani Brigade on 12 May, in an operation designed to consolidate control of the Baysan Valley. The account adds that 'their inhabitants fled in fear of the Jews.' It is not clear from Morris or the Haganah account where the villagers went or what became of their houses and land.

Zionists Colonies on Village Lands

Kefar Qish (192230), built in 1946, is on village lands to the south of the site. Nearby, Sharona (194236), founded in 1938, and Shadmot Devora (191233), built in 1939, are north and west of the village site, respectively; they are not on village lands.

Village Today

The site has been fenced in and is used as an Israeli grazing area. A large cluster of cactus grows in the midst of the stone rubble of houses, and there is a well, capped with a pump, in the center of the site. About 20 m to the west of the well is a drinking trough for animals. Eucalyptus, doum palm, and chinaberry trees grow on the site (see photos section).

Source

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

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