Zekharia

Place in Jerusalem, Israel

Zekharia

זכריה

Zekharia

Coordinates: 31°42′35″N 34°56′42″E﻿ / ﻿31.70972°N 34.94500°E﻿ / 31.70972; 34.94500
Country| Israel
District| Jerusalem
Council| Mateh Yehuda
Affiliation| Moshavim Movement
Population

(2023)[1]

| 1,368

Zekharia (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה) is a moshav in central Israel. It was formerly a Palestinian village, whose inhabitants were expelled in 1948-9. Located near Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,368.

Settlement in the area dates back to the Iron Age. During the Roman era a town named Beit Zacharia was located on the hill, which according to legend was the burial place of the prophet Zechariah. By the Mamluk era, it had become a Muslim village, and was known by various names, including Zakariyya al-Battih, Kefr Zakaria, Az-Zakariyya or simply Zakariyya. Although the village had been allotted to the Arab state in the 1947 United Nations proposed partition plan, the area was occupied by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the remaining Arab population was expelled in 1950, after which a new Jewish moshav, now Hebraized as Zekharia, was founded on the site.

## Geography

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Zekharia is located off the road between Beit Guvrin and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. It is 268 meters above sea level. It is bordered on the southeast by the Elah Valley, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of Beit Shemesh. The mountain of Azekah can be seen directly to the south of the village.

The Tell rests upon a high hilltop, whereas the village lay on a slightly elevated part of the valley below, on the northwest side of the hill.[2] The hill rises to a maximum elevation of 372 meters above sea level,[3] with a mean elevation of approximately 275 meters above sea level.[4] The village lay next to the road between Bayt Jibrin and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. The streams of Wadi Ajjur and al-Sarara were located a few kilometers north of the village.[4]

## History

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### Antiquity

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Beth Zacharia (on a nearby hill) is said to have existed in Roman times.[5][citation needed] According to legend, the body of the prophet Zechariah was found here in 415 CE and a church and monastery were established in the lower village by the same name.[6] The Madaba Map displays the lower town as the burial site of the prophet Zechariah.[7] The village lay beside the Tell, also called Az-Zakariyya.[8][9]

A tomb, dating from the early Iron Age, has been excavated here. Among the pottery found in the grave was a figurine, representing Astarte.[10]

A town called Beit Zacharia (var. Kefar Zacharia) existed on the hill in Roman times.[11]

According to Sozomen, the body of the prophet Zachariah was found here in 415 C.E. and a church and monastery were established.[12][13][6] The village was under the administrative jurisdiction of Bayt Jibrin.

### Mamluk period

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Place in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine

az-Zakariyya

زكرية

al-Zakariya

Az-Zakariyya, pre-1926

Etymology: "Zachariah"

1870s map

1940s map

modern map

1940s with modern overlay map

A series of historical maps of the area around Az-Zakariyya (click the buttons)

Palestine grid| 145/124
Geopolitical entity| Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict| Hebron
Date of depopulation| June, 1950[14]
Area

[15]

• Total

| 15,320 dunams (15.32 km2 or 5.92 sq mi)
Population

(1945)

• Total

| 1,180[16][15]
Cause(s) of depopulation| Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities| Zekharia[17]

On April 29, 1309 (=Dhu al-Qa’da 18, in the Hijri year 708), in the early Mamluk era, two representatives from Az-Zakariyya; Farraj bin Sa‘d bin Furayj and Nassar bin ‘Amara bin Sa‘id; promised that the revenues of Az-Zakariyya should go to the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.[18]

However, by the end of Mamluk era, the village was a dependency of Hebron, and formed part of the waqf supporting the Ibrahimi Mosque.[19][20] The villagers obtained their drinking water from two communal wells:- al-Saflani well which was drilled next to Wadi 'Ajjur, and al-Sarara well located north of the village.[21]

In the 1480s C.E. Felix Fabri described how he stayed in a "roomy inn", next to a "fair mosque" in the village.[22]

### Ottoman period

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In 1517, Az-Zakariyya was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers listed as Zakariyya al-Battih under the administration of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Quds (Jerusalem), part of the Sanjak of Quds. It had a population of 47 Muslim households (an estimated 259 persons) and paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, olives, beehives, and goats; a total of 11,000 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf.[23]

A Maqam (shrine) in the village dedicated to the prophet Zechariah was noticed by Edward Robinson in 1838,[24] while van de Velde, recorded its name as Kefr Zakaria in the 1850s.[2]

In 1863 Victor Guérin found the place to have five hundred inhabitants,[25] while an Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Az-Zakariyya had 41 houses and a population of 128, though the population count included men only.[26][27]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Zakariyya as sitting on a slope above a broad valley surrounded by olive groves.[28]

In 1896 the population of (Tell) Zakarja was estimated to be about 636 persons.[29]

### British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zakaria had a population of 683, all Muslim,[30] increasing in the 1931 census to 742, still all Muslims, in 189 occupied houses.[31]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,180, all Muslims,[16][15] with a total of 15,320 dunams of land.[15] In 1944/45 a total of 6,523 dunums of village land was allocated to cereals, 961 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 440 dunums were planted with olive trees,[32][33] while 70 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.[34] In the 1946 Tax Form of Mandatory Palestine, there were 357 "assessable inhabitants" living in Zakariyya, of which 232 were landowners.[35]

### 1948 and aftermath

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UN Partition Plan – Az-Zakariyya was located on the main road north of Beit Jibrin, at the northern edge of the Hebron Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine.

The village was located inside the territory allotted to a future Arab state in the UN's 1947 partition plan.[36]

In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Az-Zakariyya was the longest lasting Arab community in the southern Jerusalem Corridor.[37] The village was captured in October 1948 during Operation Ha-Har, when the Israeli military used artillery to shell Az-Zakariyya and stormed the village at night.[36] In the course of Operation Yoav, the 54th Battalion of the Givati Brigade, found the village "almost empty", as most of the residents had temporarily fled to the nearby hills. Two residents were executed by Israeli soldiers.[37] Many of the villagers returned to their homes after the cessation of hostilities.[36] In December 1948 the army evicted about 40 "old men and women" to the West Bank.[38]

In March 1949 the Interior Ministry requested the eviction of "145 or so" remaining villagers: the official in charge of the Jerusalem District said there were many good houses in the village which could be used to accommodate several hundred new Jewish immigrants.[39] In January 1950 David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and Yosef Weitz decided to evict the villagers, "but without coercion."[40]

On March 19, 1950, the transfer of the Arabs of Zakariya was approved and the last eviction was carried out on June 9, 1950, on the orders of David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and Yosef Weitz, and most ended up on the-then Jordanian-occupied West Bank refugee camps of al-Arroub and Dheisheh Refugee Camp, where the village's war refugees had settled.[41] The manner of expulsion of the villagers is not mentioned.[17]

Many evictions were on 17 May 1950 by the military. Fifteen families comprising 65 people, were transferred to the town of Ramla, while the rest of the community, some 130 people, were taken to a location near the Jordanian border where they were ordered to walk over. To hasten the process, "soldiers shot in the air several times".[36]

### State of Israel

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1940s Survey of Palestine map of az-Zakariyya, overlaid with the modern street layout of Zekharia

Two weeks after the village was emptied, the Jewish Agency resettled families of Jewish-Kurdish settlers near the village, later moving them inside the former Palestinian village to become residents of a new moshav, now Hebraized as Zekharia.[17] Most of the resettled families were Kurdish Jewish immigrants.[17]

During the 1960s, most of the older buildings in the village were decrepit and unsafe and had to be demolished to make room for new, safer housing.[42] Some view this as part of a national program to "level" depopulated villages.[43]

Zekharia

In 1992, Walid Khalidi described the remaining structures of the Arab village: "The mosque and a number of houses, some occupied by Jewish residents and others deserted, remain on the site. Large sections of the site itself are covered with wild vegetation. The mosque is in a state of neglect and an Israeli flag is planted on top of the minaret. [..] One of the occupied houses is a two-storey stone structure with a flat roof. Its second story windows have round arches and grillwork. Parts of the surrounding lands are cultivated by Israeli farmers."[17]

## Landmarks

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The tomb of Zecharia, which has been attributed to both the Hebrew prophet Zecharia and Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, is located on the moshav,[44] within the mosque.[45] The site is mentioned in sources as early as the fourth century, in the writings of Sozomenos, and it appears on the Madaba map.[44]

In the 1970s, there was a resurgence of Jewish interest in the site, which became a pilgrimage destination for Jews from Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Cochin and elsewhere in India, and elsewhere, who prayed there and lit candles.[44]

## Culture

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The village was known for its Palestinian costumes. A wedding dress from Zakariyya (ca. 1930) is part of the collection in Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) at Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe.[46]

## Notable residents

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British mandate period

* Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan

## Gallery

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* Az-Zakariyya 1945 1:250,000

* Az-Zakariyya 1947 1:20,000

* Az-Zakariyya 1948

* Mosque of Az-Zakariyya, 2015, containing the tomb of Zacharias[45]

* Homes in Moshav Zekharia

* Remains of a minaret and mosque

* Az-Zakariyya, pre-1926[47]

* Main synagogue

* View from southeast and the Elah Valley

* Residential neighborhood on adjacent hilltop

* House in Zekharia

* Public park

## References

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1. ^ "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
2. ^ a b van de Velde, 1858, p.115
3. ^ Tel Azekah
4. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, pp. 224-225
5. ^ Josephus, Antiquities (Book xii, chapter ix, verse 4)
6. ^ a b Petersen (2001), p. 320
7. ^ See p. 138 in: Tsafrir, Yoram (1986). "The Maps Used by Theodosius: On the Pilgrim Maps of the Holy Land and Jerusalem in the Sixth Century C.E." Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 40: 129–145\. doi:10.2307/1291534. JSTOR 1291534.
8. ^ Robinson and Smith, vol. II, section XI, London 1856, pp. 16, 21
9. ^ Guérin, 1869, pp. 316–319
10. ^ Baramki, 1935, pp. 109-110
11. ^ Azekah via Bible Walks.com
12. ^ Sozomen, 1855, pp. 423-424
13. ^ Pringle, 1993, p. 204
14. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village # 295. Also gives the cause for depopulation
15. ^ a b c d Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
16. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
17. ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 226
18. ^ How a 14th century document breathes life into a destroyed Palestinian village, Yossef Rapoport, July 13, 2020, +972 Magazine
19. ^ Mujir al-Din, "The glorious history of Jerusalem and Hebron" (c. 1495), translated to French by Henry Sauvaire, "Histoire d'Jérusalem et d'Hébron", Paris: Ernest Leroux (1876), p. 231. Cited and translated to English in Petersen (2001), p. 320
20. ^ Mujir al-Din, 1876, pp. 230-1. Cited and translated in Petersen, 2001, p. 320
21. ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 224–225
22. ^ Fabri, 1893, p. 427
23. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 120
24. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, pp. 343, 344
25. ^ Guérin, 1869, p. 371
26. ^ Socin, 1879, p. 163
27. ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 145, noted 56 houses
28. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 27. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 225
29. ^ Schick, 1896, p. 123
30. ^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10
31. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 34
32. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94
33. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 225
34. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 144
35. ^ Zakariya - Assessments & calculations Archived 2023-04-08 at the Wayback Machine, June 1946
36. ^ a b c d Tsahor, Dan (1 November 2019). "Postwar Nakba: A Microhistory of the Depopulation of Zakariyya, 1950". Journal of Palestine Studies. 49 (1): 47–63\. doi:10.1525/jps.2019.49.1.47.
37. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. 521
38. ^ Fourth Brigade \Intelligence, "Daily Summary 18.12.48, 19. Dec. 1948, IDFA 6647\49\\\48. Quoted in Morris, 2004, p. 521
39. ^ A. Bergman, cited in Morris, 2004, p. 521
40. ^ Entry for 14 Jan. 1950, Weitz, Diary, IV, p. 69. Cited in Morris, 2004, p. 521
41. ^ Mordechai Bar-On, officer in charge of the eviction. Quoted in Morris, 2004, p. 521
42. ^ Arnon Shai (2006). "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel, 1965-1969". History and Memory. 18 (2): 86–106\. doi:10.2979/his.2006.18.2.86. S2CID 159773082.
43. ^ Arnon Shai (2006). "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel, 1965-1969". History and Memory. 18 (2): 86–106\. doi:10.2979/his.2006.18.2.86.
44. ^ a b c Marshall J. Breger, Yitzhak Reiter and Leonard Hammer, ed. (2013). Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine: Religion and Politics. Routledge. p. 150\. ISBN 9781136490330. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
45. ^ a b Benvenisti, M.; Kaufman-Lacusta, M. (2000). Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Award, Middle Easte. University of California Press. p. 289\. ISBN 978-0-520-23422-2. Retrieved 2022-08-27. "At Moshav Zakariyya, not far from Beit Shemesh in the Shephelah, stands the neglected building of the village mosque, within which is located the grave of Zachary"
46. ^ Stillman, 1979, p. 60.
47. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 206

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## External links

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Media related to Zecharia (Moshav) at Wikimedia Commons

* Welcome to Zakariyya
* Zakariyya, Zochrot
* Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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Acre|

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Beisan|

* Arab al-'Arida
*   * Arab al-Bawati
*   * Arab al-Safa
*   * al-Ashrafiyya
* al-Bira
* Beisan
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* Farwana
*   * al-Fatur
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*   * al-Hamidiyya
*   * al-Hamra
* Jabbul
*   * Kafra
* Kawkab al-Hawa
*   * al-Khunayzir
*   * Masil al-Jizl
* al-Murassas
* Qumya
*   * al-Sakhina
*   * al-Samiriyya
* Sirin
* Tall al-Shawk
*   * al-Taqa
* al-Tira
*   * Umm 'Ajra
*   * Umm Sabuna
* Yubla
*   * Zab'a
*   * al-Zawiya

Beersheba|

* al-Imara
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* al-Khalasa
* Auja al-Hafir

Gaza|

* Arab Suqrir
* Barbara
* Barqa
*   * al-Batani al-Gharbi
* al-Batani al-Sharqi
*   * Bayt 'Affa
* Bayt Daras
* Bayt Jirja
* Bayt Tima
*   * Bil'in
* Burayr
* Dayr Sunayd
* Dimra
* al-Faluja
* Hamama
* Hatta
* Hiribya
* Huj
* Hulayqat
* Ibdis
* Iraq al-Manshiyya
* Iraq Suwaydan
* Isdud
*   * al-Jaladiyya
* al-Jiyya
* Julis
* al-Jura
*   * Jusayr
* Karatiyya
* Kawfakha
* Kawkaba
* al-Khisas
* al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
* al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
* al-Muharraqa
* Najd
*   * Ni'ilya
* Qastina
*   * al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
* al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya
*   * al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
* Simsim
* Summil
* Tall al-Turmus
* Yasur

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* Abu Shusha
* Abu Zurayq
* Arab al-Fuqara
*   * Arab al-Nufay'at
*   * Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
* 'Atlit
* Ayn Ghazal
* Ayn Hawd
* Balad al-Sheikh
*   * Barrat Qisarya
*   * Burayka
* al-Burj
*   * al-Butaymat
* Daliyat al-Rawha'
*   * al-Dumun
*   * al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
*   * al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
* Hawsha
* Ijzim
* Jaba'
* al-Jalama
*   * Kabara
*   * al-Kafrayn
* Kafr Lam
*   * al-Kasayir
* Khubbayza
*   * Lid
*   * al-Manara
* al-Mansi
*   * al-Mansura
* al-Mazar
* Naghnaghiya
* Qannir
* Qira
* Qisarya
* Qumbaza
* al-Rihaniyya
* Sabbarin
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*   * al-Sawamir
*   * al-Shuna
* al-Sindiyana
* al-Tantura
* al-Tira
*   * Umm ash Shauf
*   * Umm az-Zinat
*   * Wa'arat al-Sarris
* Wadi Ara
*   * Yajur

Hebron|

* 'Ajjur
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* Bayt Jibrin
* Bayt Nattif
* al-Dawayima
* Deir al-Dubban
* Dayr Nakhkhas
* Kudna
*   * Mughallis
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* Ra'na
* Tell es-Safi
*   * Umm Burj
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Jaffa|

* al-'Abbasiyya
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* Abu Kishk
* Bayt Dajan
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* Fajja
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* Ijlil al-Qibliyya
* Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
*   * al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
*   * al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
* Jarisha
* Kafr 'Ana
* al-Khayriyya
*   * al-Mas'udiyya
* al-Mirr
*   * al-Muwaylih
* Rantiya
*   * al-Safiriyya
* Salama
* Saqiya
*   * al-Sawalima
* al-Shaykh Muwannis
* Yazur

Jenin|

* al-Jawfa
* al-Mazar
*   * Ayn al-Mansi
* Lajjun
* Nuris
* Zir'in

Jerusalem|

* Allar
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* Artuf
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* Bayt Mahsir
* Bayt Naqquba
*   * Bayt Thul
*   * Bayt Umm al-Mays
*   * al-Burayj
*   * Dayr Aban
*   * Dayr 'Amr
*   * Dayr al-Hawa
*   * Dayr Rafat
* Dayr al-Shaykh
* Deir Yassin
* Ayn Karim
* Ishwa
* Islin
*   * Ism Allah
* Jarash
*   * al-Jura
*   * Kasla
*   * al-Lawz
* Lifta
* al-Maliha
*   * Nitaf
* al-Qabu
* Qalunya
* al-Qastal
*   * Ras Abu 'Ammar
* Sar'a
* Saris
* Sataf
* Sheikh Badr
* Suba
*   * Sufla
*   * al-Tannur
*   * al-'Umur
* al-Walaja

Nazareth|

* al-Mujaydil
* Indur
* Ma'alul
* Saffuriyya

Ramle|

* Abu al-Fadl
* Abu Shusha
*   * Ajanjul
* Aqir
* Barfiliya
*   * al-Barriyya
* Bashshit
*   * Bayt Far
* Bayt Jiz
* Bayt Nabala
*   * Bayt Shanna
* Bayt Susin
*   * Bir Ma'in
*   * Bir Salim
*   * al-Burj
*   * al-Buwayra
*   * Daniyal
*   * Dayr Abu Salama
* Dayr Ayyub
*   * Dayr Muhaysin
* Dayr Tarif
*   * al-Duhayriyya
* al-Haditha
* Idnibba
*   * Innaba
* Jilya
* Jimzu
* Kharruba
*   * al-Khayma
* Khulda
*   * al-Kunayyisa
* al-Latrun
* Lydda
*   * al-Maghar
* Majdal Yaba
*   * al-Mansura
*   * al-Mukhayzin
* al-Muzayri'a
*   * al-Na'ani
* al-Nabi Rubin
* Qatra
* Qazaza
*   * al-Qubab
*   * al-Qubayba
* Qula
* Ramla
* Sajad
* Salbit
* Sarafand al-Amar
* Sarafand al-Kharab
*   * Saydun
* Shahma
*   * Shilta
*   * al-Tina
* al-Tira
*   * Umm Kalkha
*   * Wadi Hunayn
* Yibna
*   * Zakariyya
* Zarnuqa

Safad|

* Abil al-Qamh
*   * al-'Abisiyya
* 'Akbara
* Alma
* Ammuqa
* Arab al-Shamalina
* Arab al-Zubayd
* Ayn al-Zaytun
*   * Baysamun
* Biriyya
* al-Butayha
* al-Buwayziyya
* Dallata
*   * al-Dawwara
* Dayshum
*   * al-Dirbashiyya
* al-Dirdara
*   * Fara
* al-Farradiyya
* Fir'im
* Ghabbatiyya
*   * Ghuraba
*   * al-Hamra'
* Harrawi
* Hunin
* al-Husayniyya
* Jahula
* al-Ja'una
* Jubb Yusuf
* Kafr Bir'im
* al-Khalisa
*   * Khan al-Duwayr
*   * Karraza
* al-Khisas
* Khiyam al-Walid
*   * Kirad al-Baqqara
*   * Kirad al-Ghannama
* Lazzaza
* Madahil
* Al-Malkiyya
* Mallaha
*   * al-Manshiyya
* al-Mansura
*   * Mansurat al-Khayt
* Marus
* Meiron
*   * al-Muftakhira
*   * Mughr al-Khayt
*   * al-Muntar
* al-Nabi Yusha'
* al-Na'ima
*   * Qabba'a
* Qadas
* Qaddita
*   * Qaytiyya
*   * al-Qudayriyya
* al-Ras al-Ahmar
*   * Sabalan
* Safsaf
* Saliha
* al-Salihiyya
*   * al-Sammu'i
* al-Sanbariyya
* Sa'sa'
*   * al-Shawka al-Tahta
*   * al-Shuna
*   * Taytaba
* Tulayl
*   * al-'Ulmaniyya
*   * al-'Urayfiyya
* al-Wayziyya
*   * Yarda, Safad
* al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta
* al-Zanghariyya
*   * Zawiya
*   * al-Zuq al-Fawqani
*   * al-Zuq al-Tahtani

Tiberias|

* Awlam
*   * al-Dalhamiyya
*   * Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
* Hadatha
* al-Hamma
* Hittin
* Kafr Sabt
* Lubya
*   * Ma'dhar
* al-Majdal
*   * al-Manara
* al-Manshiyya
* al-Mansura
* Nasir al-Din
* Nimrin
*   * al-Nuqayb
* Samakh
*   * al-Samakiyya
*   * al-Samra
* al-Shajara
* al-Tabigha
*   * al-'Ubaydiyya
* Wadi Hamam
* al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'
* Yaquq

Tulkarm|

*   * Bayt Lid
*   * Bayyarat Hannun
* Fardisya
*   * Ghabat Kafr Sur
* al-Jalama
* Kafr Saba
*   * al-Majdal
*   * al-Manshiyya
* Miska
* Qaqun
*   * Raml Zayta
* Tabsur
* Umm Khalid
*   * Wadi al-Hawarith
*   * Wadi Qabbani
*   * al-Zabadida
* Zalafa

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