Urfalim

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Urfalim" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Urfalim (Hebrew: אוּרְפָלִים) or Urfan Jews, also known as Urfan Levites,^{[citation needed]} are a Jewish (predominantly Levite) community originating from Urfa, in south-eastern Anatolia, in modern Turkey. Jews from the Anatolian villages of Suruç and Çermik (named Surucalim and Cermikalim) are also included within the Urfalim definition, due to the geographic proximity among those communities, and due to marriage relations between the three. The community fled Urfa in 1896, eventually relocating to Jerusalem and Tiberias.