Kafr Jinnis

Kafr Jinnis (Arabic: كفر جنّس; Hebrew: כפר ג'ינס) is an ancient site in modern-day Israel, 2 kilometers west of Ben Gurion Airport in Israel's Central District.

History

The site has been inhabited since at least the Roman period.[1] Its name derives from the Greek personal name Γενναῖος/ Γέννιος (“high-born, noble").[2]

In 1552, Haseki Hürrem Sultan, the favourite wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, endowed a quarter of the tax revenues of Kafr Jinnis to its Haseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem. Like neighnboring Jindas, the village belonged administratively to District of Gaza.[3]

In 1596, Kafr Jinnis was home to 18 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives, a total of 8,600 akce, all paid to a waqf.[4]

During the era of the British Mandate for Palestine, Kafr Jinnis railway station was built by the British military as part of a branch of the Eastern Railway to Al-Lubban [he] during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I; Kafr Jinnis was where the branch diverged from the Eastern Railway proper (see: Airport City railway station).^[citation needed]

References

1. Zelinger, Yehiel (2005). "Kafr Jinnis". Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות: חפירות וסקרים בישראל. 117. ISSN 1565-043X.
2. Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).
3. Marom, Roy (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis. 1: 8.
4. Hütteroth, W-D; Abdulfattah, K (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, 156.