Jahula

Jahula

جاحولا
Jahula جاحولا
	Etymology: Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Jahula (click the buttons)
	Jahula Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°07′29″N 35°34′02″E / 33.12472°N 35.56722°E
Palestine grid	203/281
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May, 1948
Area
• Total	3,869 dunams (3.869 km2 or 1.494 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	420

Jahula (Arabic: جاحولا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 11 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945, the village had a population of 420. The village had one mosque and a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Salih.^[5]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 62
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #23. Morris gives date and cause of depopulation with a questionmark
^ Cite error: The named reference khalidi457 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Jahula جاحولا
Etymology: Ain Jahula=The spring of the large rock^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Jahula (click the buttons)
Jahula Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°07′29″N 35°34′02″E / 33.12472°N 35.56722°E / 33.12472; 35.56722
Palestine grid	203/281
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	3,869 dunams (3.869 km² or 1.494 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	420^[2]^[3]