Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre
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Al-Nabi Rubin (Template:Langx, literally "Prophet Rubin" or "Prophet Reuben"), was a Palestinian village located 28 kilometers northeast of Acre. Al-Nabi Rubin students used to attend school in the nearby village of Tarbikha.
History
Ottoman era
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Al-Nabi Rubin: This is a small village round the tomb of the Neby, containing about ninety Moslems, it is situated on a prominent top, and surrounded by many olives, a few figs and arable land; there are two cisterns and a birket near.<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 149.</ref>
British rule
In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Suruh and Al-Nabi Rubin together was 1000 Muslims according to an official land and population survey,<ref name=1945p5/><ref name=Hadawi41/> all were Muslims,<ref>Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945 Template:Webarchive, p. 3</ref> and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land.<ref name=Hadawi41/> 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81</ref> while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131</ref>
Israeli period
The village was captured by Israel as a result of the Haganah's offensive, Operation Hiram during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrine. Al-Nabi Rubin inhabitants were expelled to Lebanon in two waves, the aged and infirm were the last to depart when the IDF trucked them to the Lebanese border.<ref>Morris, 2004, pp. 506-507</ref>
A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.<ref>Khalidi, 1992, p. 27</ref> Template:Clear
See also
References
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External links
- Welcome To al-Nabi Rubin
- al-Nabi Rubin (Aka), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Al-Nabi Rubin at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
Template:Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War