{{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Kafr Laqif | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = كفر لاقف | type = Local Development Committee | image_skyline = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Kafr Laqif within Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|32|10|58|N|35|05|26|E|region:PS|display=inline,title}} | grid_name = Palestine&nbsp;grid | grid_position = 158/176 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = State of Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Qalqilya | established_title = Founded | established_date = | government_footnotes = <!-- for references: use <ref> tags --> | government_type = Local Development Committee | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = dunam | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_total_dunam = | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=ARIJp4>[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/kafrlaqif_vp_en.pdf Kafr Laqif Village Profile], 2013, ARIJ, p. 4</ref> | elevation_m = 342 | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name="PrelimCensus2017">{{cite report |date=February 2018 |title=Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 |url=https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf |department=Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) |publisher=State of Palestine |pages=64–82 |access-date=2023-10-24}}</ref> | population_total = 1039 | population_as_of = 2017 | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning | blank_info_sec1 = The village of Lakif, meaning a ruinous structure, especially a well or cistern.<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/184/mode/1up 184]</ref> | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Kafr Laqif''' ({{langx|ar|كفر لاقف}}) is a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate in the western West Bank, located 22 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,039 inhabitants in 2017.<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" />

==Location== Kafr Laqif is located {{convert|12.04|km|mi|sp=us}} (horizontally) east of Qalqiliya. It is bordered by Hajja to the east, Wadi Qana to the south, ‘Azzun to the west, and Khirbet Sir and Baqat al-Hatab to the north.<ref name=ARIJp4/>

==History== Byzantine-period ceramics have been found there.<ref name=Dauphin801>Dauphin (1998), p. 801.</ref>

===Ottoman period=== Kafr Laqif, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the 1596 tax registers it was part of the ''nahiya'' ("subdistrict") of ''Bani Sa'b'', itself part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 15 households, all Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 10,740 akçe. 37.5% of the revenue went to a Muslim charitable endowment.<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah (1977), p. 140.</ref>

In 1838, Robinson noted ''Kefr Lakif'' as a Muslim village in the ''Beni Sa'ab'' district, west of Nablus.<ref>Robinson and Smith (1841), vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/127/mode/1up 127].</ref>

In 1870/71 (AH 1288), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''nahiya'' (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=David |title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine |publisher=Magnes Press |year=2004 |location=Jerusalem |pages=255}}</ref>

In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Kefr Lekif'' as resembling Kafr Jammal, that is: "a small stone village on a knoll, with cisterns."<ref>Conder and Kitchener (1882), p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/165/mode/1up 165].</ref>

===British Mandate=== In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Kufr Laqef'' had a population of 95 Muslims,<ref name=Census1922>Barron (1923), Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n27/mode/1up 25].</ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 141 Muslims, in 27 houses.<ref>Mills (1931), p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 62].</ref>

In the 1945 statistics the population of Kafr Laqif was 210 Muslims,<ref name= 1945p18>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p18.jpg 18].</ref> while the total land area was 2,854 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi (1970), p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-060.jpg 60].</ref> Of this, 477 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 840 for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi (1970), p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-106.jpg 106].</ref> while 19 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi (1970), p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-156.jpg 156].</ref>

<gallery> File:Azzun 1943.jpg|Kafr Laqif 1943 1:20,000 File:Azzun 1945.jpg|Kafr Laqif 1945 1:250,000 </gallery>

===Jordanian period=== In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kafr Laqif came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 304 inhabitants.<ref>Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p26.pdf 26].</ref>

===Post 1967=== During the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Laqif came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 28.2% of village land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 71.8% is classified as Area C land. The Israelis have expropriated land in Kafr Laqif for its settlements, most notably Karne Shomron and its environs. In addition, according to the plans, (as of 2007) the Israeli West Bank barrier will isolate 657 dunums (22.8% of the village's total area) on the western Israeli side of the wall.<ref>ARIJ (2013), [http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/kafrlaqif_vp_en.pdf Kafr Laqif Village Profile], pp. 17-18.</ref>

== Archaeology == Remains of a classical-era structure known locally as ''el-Burj'' are located on the northeastern heights of Kafr Laqif. The surviving portion includes a wall approximately 10 meters long and up to 4–5 meters high, built with drafted masonry indicative of a sizable and prominent building. Adjacent to the structure is a vaulted cellar constructed from dressed stone.<ref name=":0">Dar (1986), p. 223.</ref> Second Temple-period rock-cut tombs have been identified on the same hill slope. Archaeological findings from the site include remains from the Early Iron Age, Hellenistic, and Herodian periods.<ref name=":0" /> A well-paved, rock-cut road links the village to the nearby springs at 'Ein Tanur.<ref name=":0" /> These features, according to archaeologist Shimon Dar, suggest that Kafr Laqif may have functioned as a local administrative center or citadel during Hellenistic times.<ref name=":0" />

==References== {{reflist|25em}}

==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book | editor =Barron, J.B. | title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine | year = 1923}} *{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1882|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=2}} * {{cite book |last=Dar |first=Shimon |title=Landscape and Pattern: An Archaeological Survey of Samaria 800 BCE–636 CE |year=1986 |series=B.A.R. International Series |volume=308 |location=Oxford |pages=234–235}} *{{cite book | last= Dauphin |first = C.|author-link= Claudine Dauphin| title = La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FC1mAAAAMAAJ |volume = III : Catalogue | series = BAR International Series 726 | year = 1998 | publisher = Archeopress | location = Oxford|language =fr|isbn= 0-860549-05-4}} *{{cite book | title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population | author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics | year = 1964|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}} *{{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics|year=1945}} *{{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}} *{{cite book | last1= Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth |first2=K. | last2=Abdulfattah |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ | year = 1977 | publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft|isbn= 3-920405-41-2}} *{{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}} *{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}} *{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}} {{refend}}

==External links== *[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Kafr_Laqif_1259/index.html Welcome To Kafr Laqif] *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8373 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.11.jpg Wikimedia commons] *[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/factsheet/kafrlaqif_fs_en.pdf Kafr Laqif Village (Fact Sheet)], Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) *[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/vprofile/kafrlaqif_vp_en.pdf Kafr Laqif Village Profile], ARIJ *[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/images/english/Kafr%20Laqif_ap_en.jpg Kafr Laqif, aerial photo], ARIJ *[http://vprofile.arij.org/qalqiliya/pdfs/needsfordevelopment/kafrlaqif_n_en.pdf Development Priorities and Needs in Kafr Laqif], ARIJ

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