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Dayshum ديشومDayshum, Deishum
Ruins of Dayshum
Etymology: personal name
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayshum (click the buttons)
DayshumLocation within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′42″N 35°30′34″E / 33.07833°N 35.50944°E / 33.07833; 35.50944
Palestine grid	197/276
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	30 October 1948
Area
• Total	23,044 dunams (23.044 km or 8.897 sq mi)
Population
• Total	590
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Dishon

Dayshum (Template:Lang-ar), also known by its variant name Dayshun was a Palestinian village.

In the late 19th century, Dayshum was one of several villages settled by Algerian migrants under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire. The inhabitants belonged to the tribe of Ayet Yihya from Tigzirt, Algeria.

The village was depopulated on 30 October 1948 by the Sheva Brigade of Israeli paramilitary force Palmach in an offensive called Operation Hiram, where the village has been destroyed, and only house rubble left behind.

Geography

The village laid on a hillside overlooking the Wadi Hindaj stream and valley in the Upper Galilee, about 600 meters (2,000 ft) above sea level. It was located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) north of Safed.

History

Dayshum was listed in the 1596 (or 1548) Ottoman tax registers as a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira (part of Safad Sanjak), with a population of 50, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such as goats, beehives, and a press that was used for processing either olives or grapes; a total of 2,112 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (Muslim charitable endowment).

Dayshum was settled by Algerian immigrants, one of several vacant or underdeveloped villages settled by Algerians in the environs of Safed under the auspices of the Ottoman authorities in the late 19th century. The historian Moshe Sharon suggests Dayshum was not settled by the Algerians until after 1875, as the village was not mentioned by the traveler Victor Guérin, who noted other Algerian villages in the vicinity that year. The village was exclusively populated by Algerians. They hailed from the Ayet Yihya tribe from Tigzirt. As some of their ancestors had been horsemen in Algeria, the villagers of Dayshum took a keen interest in raising horses.

In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Dayshum as an"well-built" village with about 400 residents, all Algerians. The village houses were situated on the side of a steep hill near the bottom of a valley and had gabled roofs. The village had three mills and several small gardens.

British Mandate

In 1921 inspectors from the British Mandatory Department noted a maqam (holy person's shrine) northeast of the village site, dedicated to a Sheikh Haniyya. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dayshum had a population of 479, all Muslim, decreasing slightly in the 1931 census of Palestine to 438, still all Muslim, in 102 inhabited houses.

By 1942 or 1943, the village had a primary school. Dayshum was also home to a prominent imam in the Safed region at that time, Sheikh Mohammad al-Wannas. In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 590 Muslims, with a total of 23,044 dunams of land. Of this, a total 4,701 dunums of village land was used for cereals and 611 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, while 17,093 dunams were classified as non-cultivable area.

Post 1948

In 1953, the Jewish community of Dishon was established on village land. Its name is a reflection of the village's Arabic name.

In 1992, the village site was described: "Cactuses and thorns grow on the site. The only indications of the former existence of Dayshum are piles of stones from the destroyed houses and terraces. Moshav Dishon uses the land around the site for animal grazing and apple cultivation."

See also

• Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 71
2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
4. Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #32. Also gives cause of depopulation
5. Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #131. Settlement date uncertain, according to Morris, but possibly 1949 (re-established 1953)
6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 446
7. Ahmad Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". אופקים בגיאוגרפיה. 68/9: 59–60.
8. ^ Sharon 2004, p. 135.
9. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 177. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 445
10. ^ Sharon 2004, p. 136.
11. Ahmad Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". אופקים בגיאוגרפיה. 68/9: 56–62.
12. Abbasi 2003, p. 45.
13. Khalidi, 1992, p. 445
14. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 201, Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 445-446
15. Sharon 2004, p. 135.
16. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41
17. Mills, 1932, p. 106
18. Abbasi 2003, p. 54.
19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 168

Bibliography

• Abbasi, Mustafa (2003). "From Algeria to the Holy Land: Algerian Communities in the Galilee, from the Late Ottoman Period to 1948". The Maghreb Review: 41–59.
• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• 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.
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
• Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
• 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.
• Sharon, M. (2004). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, D-F. Vol. 3. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-13197-3.

External links

• Welcome to Dayshum, Palestine Remembered
• Dayshum, Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Dayshum, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
• Dayshum, Dr. Khalil Rizk.

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Hebron	'Ajjur Barqusya Bayt Jibrin Bayt Nattif al-Dawayima Deir al-Dubban Dayr Nakhkhas Kudna Mughallis al-Qubayba Ra'na Tell es-Safi Umm Burj az-Zakariyya Zayta Zikrin
Jaffa	al-'Abbasiyya Abu Kabir Abu Kishk Bayt Dajan Biyar 'Adas Fajja al-Haram 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 Aqqur Artuf Bayt 'Itab 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
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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
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• Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• District of Safad