Kafr Lam

Kafr Lam كفر لام Kfar Lam
The fortress of Kafr Lam as seen from the southeast
Etymology: The village of Lam[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Kafr Lam (click the buttons)
Kafr Lam Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°38′15″N 34°56′04″E / 32.63750°N 34.93444°E / 32.63750; 34.93444
Palestine grid	144/227
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	July 16, 1948[4]
Area [3]
• Total	6,838 dunams (6.838 km2 or 2.640 sq mi)
Population  (1944-45)
• Total	340[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause	Influence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities	HaBonim,[5] Ein Ayala[6]

Kafr Lam (Arabic: كفر لام) was a Palestinian Arab village located 26 kilometres (16 mi) south of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early in the period of Arab Caliphate rule (638–1099 CE) in Palestine. To the Crusaders, both the fort and the village, which they controlled for some time in the 13th century, were known as Cafarlet.

Kafr Lam was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the village was largely destroyed, some of its former structures and their ruins can be seen in the Israeli moshav of HaBonim, established on the lands of Kafr Lam in 1949.