'Akbara

Akbara ( ) is an Arab village in the Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.

Akbara ( ) is an Arab village in the Israeli municipality of Safed, which included in 2010 more than 200 families. It is 2.5 km south of Safed City. The village was rebuilt in 1977, close to the old village destroyed in 1948 during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. ===Ottoman Empire=== 'Akbara was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. Moshe Basola visited the village in 1522 and said that he had found there a "destroyed synagogue, 3 cubits high remaining on two sides". Later in 1968 the remains of the synagogue were identified by Foester. In the census of 1596, the village was part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jira, which was a part of Liwa Safad, with a population of 36 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslims. It paid taxes on a number of crops and produce, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, occasional revenues, goats, beehives, and a press which was either used for processing grapes or olives; a total of 6,115 akçe. 6/24 of the revenue went to a waqf. In 1648, Turkish traveler Evliya Tshelebi visited Galilee and reflected on the history of Akbara cliff caves: "The children of Israel escaped the plague and hid in these caves. Then Allah sent them a bad spirit which caused them to perish within the caves. Their skeletons, heaped together, can be seen there to this day." In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Safad district, while in 1875 the archeologist Victor Guérin visited, and described it thus: "The ruins of Akbara cover a hillock whose slopes were formerly sustained by walls forming terraces; the threshing floors of an Arab village occupy the summit. Round these are grouped the remains of ancient constructions now overthrown." "The village lies on the east of the wady. It is dominated by a platform on which foundations can be traced of a rectangular enclosure called el Kuneiseh, measuring thirty paces in length by twenty-three in breadth. It stands east and west, and was firmly constructed of good cut stones. The interior is at present given up to cultivation. This enclosure seems to have been once a Christian church." In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Akbara as a village of stone and adobe with about 90 inhabitants¹ who cultivated olive and fig trees. A population list from about 1887 showed Akbara to have about 335 inhabitants¹, all Muslims. Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA , Wikimedia commons 'Akbara, at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Akbara, Dr. Khalil Rizk. from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh

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