Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre

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This article is about the former village in Acre Sub-district. For the former village in Ramle Sub-district, see Nabi Rubin.

al-Nabi Rubin النبي روبين an-Nabi Rubin, Neby Rubin
Etymology: The prophet Rubin[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre (click the buttons)
al-Nabi Rubin Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′49″N 35°17′29″E
Palestine grid	177/276
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	early November 1948[4]
Area
• Total	18,563 dunams (18.6 km^2 or 7.2 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	1,000 with Tarbikha and Suruh[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Shomera, Even Menachem, Zar'it, Shtula

Al-Nabi Rubin (Arabic: النبي روبين, literally "Prophet Rubin" or "Prophet Reuben"), was a Palestinian village located 28 kilometers northeast of Acre. Al-Nabi Rubin students used to attend school in the nearby village of Tarbikha.

History

Ottoman era

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Al-Nabi Rubin: This is a small village round the tomb of the Neby, containing about ninety Moslems, it is situated on a prominent top, and surrounded by many olives, a few figs and arable land; there are two cisterns and a birket near.[5]

British rule

In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Suruh and Al-Nabi Rubin together was 1000 Muslims according to an official land and population survey,[2][3] all were Muslims,[6] and they had a total of 18,563 dunams of land.[3] 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,[7] while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[8]

Israeli period

IDF soldiers during Operation Hiram, as photographed in Sa'sa' on 30 October 1948

The village was captured by Israel as a result of the Haganah's offensive, Operation Hiram during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrine. Al-Nabi Rubin inhabitants were expelled to Lebanon in two waves, the aged and infirm were the last to depart when the IDF trucked them to the Lebanese border.[9]

A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.[10]

See also

• Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel

References

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 53
2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
4. Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #68. Also gives cause of depopulation.
5. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 149.
6. Village Statistics The Palestine Government, April 1945 Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 3
7. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 81
8. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 131
9. Morris, 2004, pp. 506-507
10. Khalidi, 1992, p. 27

Bibliography

• 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. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
• 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.
• 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.

External links

• Welcome To al-Nabi Rubin
• al-Nabi Rubin (Aka), Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Al-Nabi Rubin at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center