At the time of the 1931 census, al-Sakhina had 78 occupied houses and a population of 372 Muslims, one Christian, and one Jew.[5] In 1936, a Jewish kibbutz, Tel Amal (later renamed Nir David), was established slightly to the south.
The village and kibbutz together had 530 Muslims and 290 Jews in the 1945 statistics.[1] Arabs used a total of 260 dunums for cereals and 828 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations,[6] while Nir David and Al-Sakhina together had a total of 340 dunams as built-up and non-cultivable land.[7]
References
^ abGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
^Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #378. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"