Alma, Safad

Alma

علما
Alma علما
	Etymology: from personal name
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Alma, Safad (click the buttons)
	Alma Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°3′20″N 35°29′28″E / 33.05556°N 35.49111°E
Palestine grid	196/273
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	October 30, 1948
Area
• Total	19,498 dunams (19.498 km2 or 7.528 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	950
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Alma

Alma (Arabic: علما) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948, during Operation Hiram. It was located 10 km north of Safad.

Alma was located in Galilee about 4 km south of the Lebanese border.^[6] In 1945 it had a population of 950.^[6]

^ Palmer, pp. 66, 17, 61
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #33. Also gives cause of depopulation
^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #162.
^ ^a ^b Khalidi, 1992, pp. 432–433.

Alma علما
Etymology: from personal name^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Alma, Safad (click the buttons)
Alma Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°3′20″N 35°29′28″E / 33.05556°N 35.49111°E / 33.05556; 35.49111
Palestine grid	196/273
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	October 30, 1948^[4]
Area ^[2]
• Total	19,498 dunams (19.498 km² or 7.528 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	950^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Alma^[5]