Ya'bad

{{Pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Ya'bad | native_name = {{lang|ar|يعبد}} | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = يعبد | translit_lang1_type1 = Latin | translit_lang1_info1 = Yabad (official) | type = Municipality type B | image_skyline = Ya'bad.jpg | image_caption = Skyline of Ya'bad, Palestine | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Ya'bad within Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|32|26|48|N|35|10|13|E|region:PS|display=inline,title}} | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 166/205 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = {{Flag icon|Palestine}} State of Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Jenin | established_title = Founded | established_date = | government_footnotes =  | government_type = Municipality | leader_title = Head of Municipality | leader_name = Samer Abu Baker | unit_pref = dunam | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 21.6 | area_total_dunam = 21622 | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | 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 = 16012 | population_as_of = 2017 | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning | blank_info_sec1 = Yabid, p.n.<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/156/mode/1up 156]</ref> | website = | footnotes = }} '''Ya'bad''' ({{langx|ar|يعبد}}) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers west of Jenin, in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine. It is a major agricultural town, with most of its land covered with olive groves and grain fields. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 13,640 in 2007 and 16,012 in 2017.<ref name="PrelimCensus2017" /><ref name="PCBS">[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 Locality Population Statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202164837/https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf |date=2024-12-02 }}. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).</ref> Its mayor is Samer Abu Baker who was elected in 2005.<ref>[http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-6GGJDL?OpenDocument&Click= Yabad municipality inaugurates new town hall]</ref> The Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan is built on Ya'bad's land.<ref>[http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=bpc5dwa28852392195abpc5dw Israeli Settlers Attack Taxi Driver, Shut Down Main Road near Jenin], December 31, 2015 (WAFA)</ref>

==History== Pottery sherds from the Persian, Hellenistic, early Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Medieval eras have been found here.<ref>Zertal, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA109 109]</ref>

===Ottoman era=== In 1596 Ya'bad appeared in the defter (Ottoman tax registers) as being in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the ''liwa'' of Nablus. It had a population of 62 households, all Muslim. They paid a tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, amounting to 18,085 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a waqf dedicated to ''Halil ar-Rahman''.<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 128</ref>

In 1694, Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, a Muslim traveler, passed by Ya'bad and noted it as "a village between Jenin and Arrabeh".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zerṭāl |first1=Ādām |title=The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: The Shechem Syncline |date=2004 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-13756-1 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA108 |language=en}}</ref> Nabulsi noted that it had a local majdhūb (ascetic Muslim practitioner), a Black former slave known as "Sheikh Zā’id," who lived in a cave as a hermit and was noted for his love of coffee.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Hermit of Ya’bad and His Marvelous Coffee and Good Counsel |journal=Thicket & Thorp |date=29 November 2014 |url=https://thicketandthorp.com/2014/11/29/the-hermit-of-yabad-and-his-marvelous-coffee-and-good-counsel/ |language=en}}</ref>

In the 17th-18th centuries, Ya'bad was renowned for producing the finest cheese in Jabal Nablus. Politically, it was ruled by the Qadri clan, which was allied with the powerful Abd al-Hadi clan of Arrabeh.<ref>Doumani, Beshara. (1995). [http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft896nb5pc&chunk.id=ch1&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ch1&brand=eschol;query=Ya%E2%80%98bad#1 The Hinterland of Nablus]</ref> In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village, ''Ya'bud'', located in the ''esh–Sha'rawiyeh esh–Shurkiyeh'' District.<ref name=Robinson129>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/129/mode/1up 129]</ref>

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted Ya'bad was situated "on a hill",<ref>Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n248/mode/1up 223]</ref> while in the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (1882), ''Yabid'' was described as "a good-sized stone village, with some Christian families and two factions of Moslems, called respectively the 'Abd el Hady and the Beni Tokan, living in separate quarters. The village stands on a ridge, with a well to the south and a small separate quarter on the east, in which is a small Mukam."<ref name=SWP291>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/47/mode/1up 47]</ref>

===British Mandate era=== In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Yabid'' had a population of 1,733, all Muslims,<ref name="Census1922">Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n32/mode/1up 30]</ref> increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 2,383, still all Muslim, in 418 occupied houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 71]</ref>

In 1935 the prominent Arab resistance leader Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and a few of his men were killed in a cave near Ya'bad during a firefight with the British.<ref name=segev>Segev, 2013, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nLjPzQJEAkMC&pg=PA360 360] -362</ref>

In the 1945 statistics the population of Ya'bad (including Khirbat el Khuljan, Khirbat et Tarim, Khirbat Tura ash Sharqiya, Nazlat Sheik Zeid and Khirbat Umm Rihan) was 3,480, all Muslims,<ref name=1945p17>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p17.jpg 17]</ref> with 37,805 dunams of land, 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/Jinin/Page-055.jpg 55]</ref> 6,035 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 9,955 dunams 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/Jinin/Page-100.jpg 100]</ref> while 92 dunams were built-up (urban) land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jinin/Page-150.jpg 150]</ref>

===Jordanian era=== In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Ya’bad came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 4,709 inhabitants in Ya'bad.<ref>Government of Jordan, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p13.pdf 13]</ref>

===Post-1967=== Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Ya'bad has been under Israeli occupation. The population of Ya'bad in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 4,857, of whom 581 originated from the Israeli territory.<ref name=67census>{{cite web |url=http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_2.pdf |title=The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version |author=Perlmann, Joel |date=November 2011 – February 2012 |website=Levy Economics Institute |access-date=25 January 2018 }}</ref>

In May 1985 five village women set up a Women's Work Committee which opened a kindergarten for 60 children and started a sewing course with 32 young women.<ref>Middle East International No 272, 4 April 1986, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters. Joost R. Hiltermann p. 16</ref>

A major charcoal mine is located near Ya'bad and most of its workers come from the town.<ref name="Yabad unemployment">[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7027405.stm Palestinians struggle in dire straits] Martin Asser ''BBC News''</ref> Since the establishment of "closed-off areas" and the construction of the West Bank Barrier in the northern West Bank, Ya'bad and surrounding cities and towns have seen an increase in unemployment which reached to 88% in 2006. The annual average income has dropped "dramatically" by one-third according to the World Bank.<ref name="Yabad unemployment"/>

== Demography == Residents of Ya'bad originated from various locations, such as Egypt, Iraq, the area of Jerusalem, and neighboring villages.<ref>Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in '''Shomron studies'''. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 349</ref>

== See also == *List of cities in Palestine

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

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==External links== *[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Ya_bad_1693/index.html Welcome To Ya'bad] *[https://www.welcometopalestine.com/destinations/jenin/yabad/ Yabad], Welcome to Palestine *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8389 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.08.jpg Wikimedia commons] *[http://poica.org/2003/08/the-israeli-checkpoints-in-the-northern-districts-of-the-west-bank/ The Israeli Checkpoints in the Northern Districts of the West Bank] 24, August, 2003, POICA *[http://poica.org/2007/05/hundreds-of-dunums-confiscated-for-bypass-road-construction/ Hundreds of dunums confiscated for bypass road construction] 07, May, 2007, POICA *[http://poica.org/2011/11/confiscating-a-truck-in-yabad-village-jenin-governorate/ Confiscating a Truck in Ya'bad Village - Jenin Governorate] 06, November, 2011, POICA

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