Al-Judeira | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | جديره |
al-Judeira in the front of the picture. | |
Location of Al-Judeira within Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°51′30″N35°11′52″E / 31.85833°N 35.19778°E | |
Palestine grid | 168/140 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Jerusalem |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
Population (2017) [1] | |
• Total | 2,634 |
Name meaning | The sheep-fold [2] |
Al-Judeira (Arabic : جديره) is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,634 in 2017. [1]
E. H. Palmer of the Palestine Exploration Fund wrote that Al-Judeira means "sheep-fold", after the Hebrew : גדרה, romanized: Gederah, "fold". [2]
Al Judeira is located (horizontally) 9.3 kilometers (5.8 mi) north-west of Jerusalem. To the east is Kalandia, Rafat is to the north, Al Jib is to the west, and Bir Nabala is to the south. [3]
Several scholars have suggested that Judeira is the site of Gederah in Benjamin, which is mentioned in the Bible as home to Yozabad the Gederathite, a Benjaminite warrior who defected to David. It is mentioned shortly after the nearby sites of Azmaveth (identified with modern-day Hizme), Anathoth (probably 'Anata) and Gibeon (Al Jib). [4] [5] [6]
In the Ottoman census of the 1500s, Jadira was noted as a village located in the nahiya of Jerusalem. [7]
In 1838 el-Jedireh was noted as a Muslim village, located north of Jerusalem. [8] [9]
In 1863 Guérin described it as a small village, with a mosque consecrated to a Sheikh Yassin. In the courtyard in front of this sanctuary, he noticed what was possibly an old Corinthian capital, which had been made into a mortar, where the villagers pounded coffee. [10] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 40, in a total of 13 houses, though the population count only included men. It was also noted that it was located east of Al Jib. [11] [12]
In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small village on a slope, surrounded by figs and olives, and with rock-cut tombs to the north." [4]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ijdireh had a population of 122, all Muslims, [13] increasing in the 1931 census to 139 Muslim inhabitants, in 31 inhabited houses. [14]
In the 1945 statistics Judeira had a population of 190 Muslims, [15] with 2,044 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. [16] Of this, 353 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,314 used for cereals, [17] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [18]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, al-Judeira came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 328 inhabitants in Judeira. [19]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Judeira has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 25.4% of the village’s land was classified as Area B, the remaining 74.6% is classified was Area C. [20]
In 2005, Israel started the construction of a separation barrier around al-Judeira, Al Jib, Bir Nabala, Beit Hanina al-Balad and Kalandiya. [21] The wall was built on Palestinian land seized by Military Orders. [22] The wall completely surrounds the villages, forming an enclave. [23]
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