Al-Jalama, Haifa

Al-Jalama

الجلمة
Al-Jalama الجلمة
	Jalame Prison (Kishon Detention Center)
	Etymology: The hill
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	Al-Jalama Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°43′24″N 35°05′27″E / 32.72333°N 35.09083°E
Palestine grid	158/236
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Area
• Total	7,713 dunams (7.713 km2 or 2.978 sq mi)

Al-Jalama (Arabic: الجلمة) was a Palestinian village about 14 kilometres south-east of Haifa. It was depopulated in 1948.

History

The village was situated just above Khirbat Asafna. Excavations between 1964 and 1971 showed that the site had been occupied intermittently from the first to the fourth century CE.^[3]

In the British Mandate period in Palestine, the village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer.^[2] In the 1931 census of Palestine, Al-Jalama was counted under Isfiya.^[4]

In 1948 al-Jalama was depopulated and the area was subsequently incorporated into the State of Israel after the war. The Kishon prison, also known as the Al Jalame detention centre, was later established on the village site.^[5]

The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village site in 1992: "A military camp occupies the area, which is covered by eucalyptus trees."^[2]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 109
^ ^a ^b ^c Khalidi, 1992, p. 167
^ Weinberg, 1988, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 167
^ Mills, 1932, p. 92
^ Sherwood, Harriet (22 January 2012). "Palestinian children – alone and bewildered – in Israel's Al Jalame jail". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2012.