Abu Zurayq

Abu Zurayq Abu Zureiq or Abu Zreiq
A school in Abu Zurayq, pre-1948
Palestine grid	162/226
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	April 12–13, 1948[1]
Area
• Total	6,493 dunams (6.493 km2 or 2.507 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	550[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary cause	Expulsion by Yishuv forces

Abu Zurayq

Shown within Israel
Alternative name	Tell Abu Zureiq
Location	HaZore'a, Israel
Region	Border between the Menashe Heights and Jezreel Valley
Coordinates	32°38′03″N 35°07′34″E / 32.63417°N 35.12611°E / 32.63417; 35.12611
Type	Ancient village, cemetery
History
Abandoned	1948
Periods	Paleolithic, Neolithic (Wadi Rabah culture), Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Ottoman period, British Mandate
Site notes
Archaeologists	Jean Perrot, Emmanuel Anati, Avner Raban, Aviram Oshri, Yosef Garfinkel

Abu Zurayq is a cluster of archaeological sites at a well-watered spot at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley and its transition to the Menashe Heights, next to Highway 66, between the modern kibbutzim of HaZore'a and Mishmar HaEmek.

The site includes a tell (archaeological mound) called in Hebrew Tel Zariq (תל זריק) and Tell Abu Zureiq in Arabic, a spring called Ein Zariq, and other sites around it. The site was surveyed by Avner Raban as part of the survey of the Mishmar HaEmek area between 1974 and 1976. Based on the pottery collected by his team, the site was inhabited continuously from the Neolithic to the Ottoman periods.^[4] The site is named after a Muslim saint who is buried there.^[5]

In the 20th century, it was a Palestinian Turkmen village in the Haifa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq. The area was also named Et Tawatiha,^[6][7] after the al-Tawatiha tribe, one of the three "true" Turkmen tribes in Palestine.^[8]

It was depopulated on April 12–13 during and after the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek of the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.