From the Pages of the Defter (ص 145)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 145)

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two kilometers from the main road between Bayt Jibrin, at the southwestern base of the
Hebron foothills, and the Jerusalem-Jaffa road.?°
In 1876, recorded in the village were twenty-six residences of varying values, from
Hamad b. Hamdan Latf’s three-building hane valued at 3,000 kurus, the first property to be
listed among village entries, to a number of modest odas valued at 250 and 375 kurus. The
owner of one of these modest homes, Ahmad b. Muhammad Khalayle, also owned a stable in
the village, and in the center of town there was a communally owned guesthouse (menzu/)
upon which, as was customary, the vergi property tax was not imposed.
Among the village’s agricultural entries were six small plots of fig trees totaling 65.75
dunams, and a three-dunam vegetable garden. These properties were recorded as belonging to
an endowment, and designated as “waaf [al-|dayr” (lit., the endowment of the monastery), and
a different householder was recorded as the mutawalli of each, responsible for its
management. Aside from these seven plots, registered to the village en bloc were 3,466
dunams of field-crop land valued at 314 kurus per dunam, slightly more than twice the average
assessed value for tarla in the district; and 750 olive trees, each tree valued at 250 kurus, also
above the average district value. If the number of shareholders in these properties was not
greater than the number of householders, this small village’s farmers must have often
*3° Walid Khalidi, ed., All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
(Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992):314.
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