Meiser

Arab village in northern Israel

Place in Haifa, Israel

Meiser

מֵיסִר‎
ميسر

Hebrew transcription(s)
• unofficial| Shaykh Maysar, Shaykh Maysir, Khirbat Maysar
Etymology: Sheikh Meisir, p.n.; meaning a certain gambling game with arrows.[1]

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Coordinates: 32°26′41″N 35°2′31″E﻿ / ﻿32.44472°N 35.04194°E﻿ / 32.44472; 35.04194
Grid position| 203/705 ITM
154/205 PAL
Country|  Israel
District| Haifa
Council| Menashe
Population

(2022)[2]

| 2,115

This article is about the village. For the surname, see Meiser (surname).

Meiser (Arabic: ميسر; Hebrew: מֵיסַר, also known as Shaykh Maysar or Khirbat Maysar) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located half a kilometre west of the Green Line, north of the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the triangle area of Wadi Ara, it is one of three Arab villages under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 2,115.[2]

## History

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### Antiquity

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Remains from the Early Roman era (end of the first century BCE–beginning of the first century CE) have been found here.[3][4][5]

Three strata from the Roman-Byzantine periods was excavated in the centre of the village.[6] A bathhouse, dating from the same time, has also been found.[7]

Ceramics and other remains from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4][8][9]

An excavation revealed remains dating from the end of the Byzantine period (7th century CE), and above it were remains of a residential house from the Abbasid period (9th–10th centuries CE).[10]

### Ottoman era

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In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Sheikh Meisir "foundations near a modern Mukam" (Muslim tomb).[11] In spite of this, Andrew Petersen, who inspected the Maqam in 1994, suggested "that the building may be considerably older than the nineteenth century."[12]

### British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet Maisir had a population of 49 Muslims.[13]

In the 1945 statistics Meiser was counted with Qaffin and Kh. el Aqaba, together they had a population of 1,570 Muslims,[14] with a land area of 23,755 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,[16] while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[17]

* Meiser 1942 1:20,000

* Meiser 1945 1:250,000

View of Meiser, 2006

## See also

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* Arab localities in Israel
* Wadi Ara

## References

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1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 152
2. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
3. ^ Dagot, 2007, Horbat Mesar
4. ^ a b Zertal, 2016, pp. 292-294
5. ^ Massarwa, 2010, Horbat Mesar
6. ^ Sa‘id, 2009, Horbat Mesar
7. ^ Tabar and Gendelman, 2013, Horbat Mesar
8. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 752
9. ^ Massarwa, 2009, Horbat Mesar (North)
10. ^ Sa‘id, 2008, Horbat Mesar
11. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
12. ^ Petersen, 2001, p. 283
13. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
14. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177

## Bibliography

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* Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
* Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2\. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
* Dagot, Angelina (2007-01-10). "Horbat Mesar". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (119).
* Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
* Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
* Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
* Massarwa, Abdallah (2009-06-23). "Horbat Mesar (North)". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (121).
* Massarwa, Abdallah (2010-03-30). "Horbat Mesar". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (122).
* Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
* Petersen, Andrew (2001). A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology). Vol. 1\. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-727011-0.
* Sa‘id, Kareem (2008-12-18). "Horbat Mesar". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (120).
* Sa‘id, Kareem (2009-12-07). "Horbat Mesar". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (121).
* Tabar, Murad Anton; Gendelman, Peter (2013-12-31). "Horbat Mesar". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (125).
* Zertal, A. (2016). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Vol. 3\. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004312302.

## External links

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* Village website
* Welcome To Kh. al-Shaykh Meiser
* Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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