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passage is a fourth claim which, this study will argue, available evidence does not support. It
relates to the demographics of registered owners, which will be discussed in the following
chapters.
As of yet, there have been no studies on the yoklama tapu commissions and their
work in Palestine, even though a number of yoklama registers are known to exist. In the
early years following Israel’s conquest of the West Bank, Ya’akov Firestone located a number
‘9 In a lengthy footnote ina
of yoklama registers, the earliest one apparently from 1879.
1975 article, he wrote that the Land Registry offices held Ottoman land-transaction books
(daimi registers) for Jenin dating continuously from 1886. He also found there some earlier
daimi registers, “for all of Northern Samaria”. This Biblical name (Shomron in Hebrew)
corresponding roughly to the mountainous central region known in Arabic as Jabal Nablus,
became official terminology in Israel shortly after the June 1967 war. Since it does not
correspond to the Ottoman period, however, it cannot be determined which districts, towns,
or villages Firestone meant to indicate. He also mentioned locating in Jenin a number of
yoklama registers. He wrote specifically about a late 1883 register (Tishrin |, 1299 maliyye),
which had been cataloged as “Yoklama #5” by Israeli authorities. He also refers to “Jenin
29 Va’akov Firestone, “Production and Trade in an Islamic Context: Sharika Contracts in the Transitional
Economy of Northern Samaria, 1853-1943, part II”, UMES 6/3 (July 1975): p. 310, footnote 1. This is a
lengthy but, unfortunately, only a passing reference to these land registers. Firestone did not make use
of the registers for any published research that | am aware of. He appears not to have recognized their
historical and historiographical importance, commenting in this footnote merely that “while the
Ottoman [yoklama] registers do list an area for each entry, this was based on the owner’s declaration,
which was made only for the sake of form and bore no relation to reality’. (Ibid., emphasis added.) .
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