Ijzim

Ijzim إجزم Ikzim[1]
Ijzim mosque
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ijzim (click the buttons)
Ijzim Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°38′41″N 34°59′17″E / 32.64472°N 34.98806°E / 32.64472; 34.98806
Palestine grid	149/227
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	24–26 July 1948[4]
Population  (1945)
• Total	2,970[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Kerem Maharal[5]

Ijzim (Arabic: إجزم) was a Palestinian village in the Haifa Subdistrict of British Mandate Palestine, 19.5 kilometers south of the city, that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Many of its Palestinian inhabitants ended up as refugees in Jenin after a group of Israeli Special Forces, composed of members of the Golani, Carmeli and Alexandroni Brigades, attacked the village in Operation Shoter on 24 July 1948.^[6]

Families from Ijzim include the Madis, the Nabhanis and the Alhassans. Collectively, they owned over 40,000 dunams (40 km²) of land and were considered one of the richest villages in Palestine.^[7]