Al-Safiriyya
Al-Safiriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during Operation Hametz in the 1948 Palestine War on May 20, 1948. It was located 11 km east of Jaffa, 1.5 km west of Ben Gurion Airport.
Al-Safiriyya
السافريّة | |
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| Etymology: from a personal name | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Safiriyya (click the buttons) | |
Al-Safiriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°59′36″N 34°51′04″E | |
| Palestine grid | 135/155 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | Not known |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12,842 dunams (12.842 km2 or 4.958 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 3,070 |
| Current Localities | Tzafria, Kfar Chabad, Ahi'ezer Tochelet Sharir Shafrir (at the site of what is now Kfar Chabad) has been absorbed in the previous, and in the suburbs of Rishon LeZion |
Starting in 1949, the ruins of the site were overbuilt by the Israeli town of Kfar Chabad.
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