Population displacements in Israel after 1948

Population shifts in Israel after 1948 refers to the movement of Jewish and Arab populations in the wake of Israeli independence and the outbreak of the 1948 War. Arab villagers who resettled in other locations in Israel after 1948 are often referred to as internally displaced Palestinians. Many fled during the war but later returned to their homes. The Palestinians say that Israelis drove them from out while Israel says most left of their own accord.[1] From 1948 to 1951, mass immigration nearly doubled Israel's Jewish population.[2]

## Arab population shifts[edit]

* Ein Rafa Populated by Palestinians from Suba now Tzova.[3]
* Ein Hawd Populated by Palestinians from Ein Hod.[4]
* Ramla Populated by some Palestinians from Ashdod.[1]
* Shfaram Populated by Palestinians from the Galilee.[5]
* Ein Karem Populated by one Palestinian Christian family from Bassa village.[citation needed]
* Nazareth More than half the population is made up of internal refugees, some of them Christian Palestinians from Safed, Baysan and Tiberias.[6][7][8]
* Umm al-Fahm[citation needed]
* Jish Some of the Population came from the Christian Palestinian villages of Iqrit and Kafr Bir'im.[9][10]
* Rameh Some of the Population came from the Christian Palestinian villages of Iqrit.[11]
* Tuba-Zangariyye Some of the population, or perhaps all, from Arab Tuba and Arab Zangaria moved to this location after 1948. Some members of Mansurat el Kheit may have also ended up here.[citation needed]
* Harish\- In 1996 about 70 Arabs were relocated from Ramle.[12]

## Jewish population shifts[edit]

* Gush Etzion comprised four Jewish villages established south of Jerusalem in the 1920s. The populations of Kfar Etzion, Massu'ot Yitzhak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim were displaced.[13]
* Beit Eshel
* Beit Yosef
* Hartuv (destroyed and rebuilt after the war as Moshav Naham)
* Kfar Uria (destroyed and rebuilt after the war)
* Mishmar HaYarden
* Nirim (destroyed and rebuilt after the war in another location)
* Nitzanim (destroyed and rebuilt after the war in another location)
* Atarot
* Beit HaArava
* Kalia
* Neve Yaakov
* Gush Katif
* Migron

## See also[edit]

* Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
* List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Ghosts of 1948 haunt Gaza crisis
2. ^ Immigration and asylum: From 1900 to the present, Volume 1, Matthew J. Gibney, Randall Hansen
3. ^ Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press 2004, p436
4. ^ Meron Benvenisti (2000). Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. University of California Press. pp. 193–195. Archived from the original on 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
5. ^ "Meet Hamad Amar, Yisrael Beiteinu's Druze candidate - Haaretz - Israel News". www.haaretz.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009.
6. ^ Emmett 1995, p. 45.
7. ^ Dumper, Michael; Stanley, Bruce E.; Abu-Lughod, Janet L. (2006). Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia (Illustrated ed.). ABC-CLIO. pp. 273–274. ISBN 9781576079195.
8. ^ Laurie King-Irani (November 2000). "Land, Identity and the Limits of Resistance in the Galilee". Middle East Report. No. 216 (216): 40–44. doi:10.2307/1520216. JSTOR 1520216.
9. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 508
10. ^ "The Aramaic language is being resurrected in Israel". Vatican Insider - La Stampa. 24 September 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
11. ^ Mansour 2004, p. 219.
12. ^ Simon, Daniel Ben (July 12, 2013). "Israeli Settlement Harish a Dismal Failure". Al-Monitor. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
13. ^ Gorenberg, Gershom (2007). The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-8241-8.

## External links[edit]

* Normalization under Conflict? Spatial and Demographic Changes of Arabs in Haifa, 1948-1992
* The Myth of Jewish "Colonialism": Demographics and Development in Palestine